Humans have evolved alongside microbes in Earth's environment that help strengthen our immune systems. But sterile living ...

The overly sterile environment of the International Space Station is missing important microbes, a new detailed map shows. If ...

The ISS’s microbial environment most closely resembles a hospital isolation room. It could be making astronauts sick.

Learn how the excessive cleanliness of the International Space Station poses health problems for astronauts and why ...

Elon Musk recently called for the ISS to be deorbited "as soon as possible." Experts say the station provides vital research, ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is too clean and should be made dirtier to keep astronauts healthy, scientists have ...

Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A new study suggests that these issues could be due to the excessively sterile ...

China plans to send an astronaut from its all-weather ally Pakistan as the first foreign guest to its space station Tiangong.

Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbalance that has been linked to health issues in other settings.

Several companies have contracts with NASA to design private space habitats to replace the International Space Station once ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s call to crash the ISS into the seas in 2027 is a bombshell proposal that, if echoed by NASA, will trigger a backlash across the Station allies.

Axiom Space, in collaboration with NASA, is fast-tracking the transition to an independent, commercial space station. By ...