For the closest thing to spending a year on Mars, without leaving Earth, look no further than Houston. NASA has opened ...

The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth. The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA's first simulated Mars ...

A research volunteer uses augmented reality goggles to perform astronaut-like tasks during a simulated space mission.

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, ...

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 ...

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. A crew of NASA scientists emerged from a simulation of Mars after over a year in the faux-red-planet Saturday. The four crew ...

NASA is looking for volunteers to be part of a year-long simulated Moon and Mars mission.

A new "immersive visualization" will allow users to experience the plunging into a black hole and falling beyond the "point of no return" within the phenomenon, the NASA said in a news release. The ...

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will help scientists ...