President Pee-Pee really needs to stop playing shy. During a video conference with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Monday, the president—yes the man who allegedly had Russian ...

As India prepares to send its second astronaut, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, to space aboard the Axiom 4 mission, the spotlight turns to those who have already made the journey beyond Earth. Among ...

HOUSTON - Astronauts tinkered Sunday with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and sweat into drinkable water, which is vital to allowing the international space station ...

Turning air and astronaut urine into a meal may sound like science fiction, but it’s a serious proposal from European scientists. A new project led by the European Space Agency (ESA) aims to produce ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While touring the NASA Ames Research Center, Electronic Products got a close-up look at the machine that can transform urine into viable drinking water. This system can recycle all waste water ...

Future astronauts on long-duration missions to the Moon or Mars could survive on a protein powder made from “thin air” and urine, the European Space Agency has announced. A new pilot program aims to ...

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 ...