If you’re feeling in need of some travel to broaden your horizons but you don’t have the option to leave home right now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has something special to offer you: A virtual ...

Santa Monica College’s John Drescher Planetarium continues its Friday evening events in winter 2025 with free, live virtual shows presented online at smc.edu/planetarium. The winter shows will explore ...

Four volunteers will spend the next 378 days in a simulation of Mars, facing harsh, realistic challenges in tight quarters under NASA’s watchful eye in preparation for a real-life mission to the red ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena unveiled a new technology it has developed to allow scientists to work in virtual reality on Mars. NASA calls its technology ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

A virtual reality challenge seeks to help prepare astronauts for Red Planet living. NASA opened a new Mars challenge today (Feb. 16) in partnership with crowdsourcing platform HeroX, along with ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The Challenger Learning Center has been busy with another mission...to Mars. Through the Challenger Maine’s NASA CAAT Grant, they have been offering Virtual Destination Mars ...

Four volunteers entered a simulated Mars habitat on Sunday, where they are expected to remain for 378 days while facing a range of challenges designed to anticipate a real-life human mission to the ...