NASA’s Perseverance rover is testing spacesuit materials on Mars to help scientists design gear for future astronauts.

NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits.

Modern space suits use advanced materials to ensure astronauts have the protection they need. For instance, the suits developed by SpaceX for the Crew Dragon missions use fire-resistant Kevlar and ...

Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far ... have evolved from pressure suits for pilots in high-altitude planes to ones that can keep astronauts alive in the near-vacuum conditions ...

NASA's Perseverance rover isn't just hunting for signs of ancient life on Mars, it's also testing spacesuit materials right ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...

All will need the new materials, designs ... But not everyone loves the old-fashioned suit. Astronaut Tim Kopra has flown twice to the International Space Station, initially on the space shuttle ...

The astronauts had to wait to return on one of the other spacecraft that ferry crew members to the ISS, the SpaceX Crew ...

Since childhood, she wanted to figure out how things work, leading to an undergraduate degree in textile engineering at Marmara University in Turkey and the pursuit of a master’s in materials ... is ...

Engineers have had to come up with some interesting ways to generate oxygen in the vacuum of space.

Inspired by the garments worn by NASA's Mercury 7 astronauts, Barbie famously donned an astronaut suit two years after the world's first woman lifted off for space and almost two decades before a ...