Outer space has incredible views but the food could use some work. There’s a long and storied history of developing food for space travel. In the early days, astronauts ate and drank liquids and ...

Just in case people thought airline food was inedible: Astronauts on future missions to the Moon and Mars could subsist on a brand new “space food” that is concocted from thin air and urine, the ...

BERLIN, Germany — The European Space Agency said Friday that human urine could one day become a useful ingredient in making concrete to build on the moon. The agency said researchers in a recent study ...

A recent study proposes a surprising ally in the effort to build human habitats on Mars: bacteria. According to researchers, certain microbes could not only help construct shelters using Martian soil ...

HOUSTON – At the international space station, it was one small sip for man and a giant gulp of recycled urine for mankind. Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by ...

The European Space Agency has launched a new program that could have astronauts survive on a protein powder made from “thin air” and urine during long missions, the agency said in a press release. The ...

The European Space Agency is exploring a few different concepts to improve nutrition for astronauts taking part in long-distance space missions. After beginning to investigate insect-based dietary ...

Sustaining life aboard a spacecraft is a shrewd game of resource management. Astronauts must maximize all resources, extracting every possible benefit before “waste” can truly be called waste. Given ...

When NASA astronauts return to the moon in 2024, they'll need a lunar base that allows them to stay on the surface. And the astronauts may build their base using something readily available: their ...