Space is hard. Future astronauts will face a long list of excruciating challenges. These include facing the harsh loneliness of months-long trips away from Earth and exposure to space radiation. Then, ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

Takeshi Nikawa is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Physiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, and chief director of the Institute ...

The top prize went to Interstellar Lab. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The challenge began in 2021 and, to date, has included ...

Space travel is a fascinating phenomenon. But this comes with a fair share of unique challenges, especially with food. NASA has made strict guidelines on the list of foods that astronauts can have in ...

NASA has announced a new round of Deep Space Food Challenge, and this round of the competition comes with $1 million in prizes for teams that can come up with innovative foods that can be prepared in ...

TOKYO >> A new certification aims to promote the development of sophisticated space food needed for long-term stays in space. Amid big dreams of space travel, an academic society has created an ...

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First Japan wants to make space sake and now China has been roasting New Orleans-style chicken wings and black pepper steaks in a specially made hot-air oven aboard its Tiangong space station, ...

Space travel is heating up, both by NASA and private enterprises, with bold adventurers and scientists looking to eventually send humans to Mars. One of the challenges of such a multiyear mission in ...

A spacefaring people needs more than rockets and stations. No civilization has ever been built on technical capability alone. It needs people who choose to remain and pursue life beyond Earth’s orbit.

French cuisine has a reputation for being among the world’s best. So what’s a French astronaut do to when faced with the prospect of spending months aboard the International Space Station eating ...