The International Space Station may be too sterile – and the astronauts on board could benefit from it being a little dirtier ...

Thankfully, the study offers one potential way forward: Add some dirt. “Introducing an environmental non-saline soil matrix ...

Progress MS-30 (or Progress 91) will deliver three tons of "gifts" (food, fuel, and supplies) for the space station crew.

Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbalance that has been linked to health issues in other settings.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s call to crash the ISS into the seas in 2027 is a bombshell proposal that, if echoed by NASA, will trigger a backlash across the Station allies.

Several companies have contracts with NASA to design private space habitats to replace the International Space Station once ...

There may be logic in keeping spacecraft as sterile as possible, but this could inadvertently be affecting astronauts' health ...

A new study suggests that some austronaut health issues could be due to the "excessively sterile" nature of spacecraft. The ...

SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronauts are set to fly to the space station on March 12. But in many ways, their journey to orbit started ...

NASA's stranded astronauts issued a powerful five-word message to Americans concerned about their health and safety Thursday morning.

A new SpaceX rocket launched a pristine batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit late Wednesday (Feb. 26) in a ...

"With the brand-new System Colonisation mechanic launching into Beta," says Frontier, "the power to claim and expand your ...