Why it matters: In a conference in Washington D.C. this week, NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office and the Federal Emergency Management Agency ran a chilling simulation – what if a massive ...

NASA recently brought together about 100 experts to pretend that an asteroid was heading for Earth. The tabletop simulation presented a hypothetical scenario in which cities like Dallas, Washington, ...

NASA’s CHAPEA mission, designed to simulate the challenges of long-duration Mars exploration, has now reached a milestone, 200 days inside their habitat. As the crew of four astronauts continues their ...

July 2 (UPI) --The first volunteer crew, to live for more than a year inside NASA's Mars habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, will exit the simulated Red Planet ground mission on Saturday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth. The four volunteer crew ...

NASA continues to test various robotic models in a simulated lunar surface as it works toward the goal of having humans back on the moon. The RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot ...