Under Rogers’s direction and funding, the HI-SEAS habitat will reopen this year—not as a Mars simulation, but a moon one. “It’s my habitat, for chrissakes,” Rogers told me in a recent ...

A company in Italy has already produced a 1.5 tonne simulated lunar building block. The European Space Agency has a new idea: to build a moon habitat using an inflatable dome, then cover the dome ...

Here's the crazy plan to start building an inflatable habitat on the Moon in 2024. ... The lander will contain everything ESA needs to being including an inflatable dome and robots with 3D printers.

I'm in Hawaii to experience what it could be like to live as an astronaut on a mission to the moon or Mars. With Musilova, director of HI-SEAS missions as my guide, I'm going to learn how would-be ...

Last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by landing the first ever spacecraft — called Philae — on a comet. The ESA's next big mission for the history books: Building the first ...

The Mars simulation dome will house a new mission to model life on the moon's surface, with test simulations expected to begin as soon as next week and crewed missions slated for 2020.

"The habitat would look just like an igloo," said Kathryn Logan, a professor at Virginia Tech involved in the project. ... While strong, a moon brick Voissoir dome home would likely be drafty.

Researchers unveil plans for a 3D-printed moon base, ... announced plans last week to investigate whether a 3D printer could be used to build a moon habitat. ... The dome would be sent up by space ...

Potential future inhabitants of the moon and Mars could live in rooms made of mushrooms. ... The habitat would look like a three-layer dome, consisting of an outer layer of ice.

Also, the facets can change their color and transparency to control the habitat's temperature. The origami project undertook initial field tests of a prototype entrance tunnel in April, and more ...

Hong Kong-based firm Daydreamers Design created 'Rising Moon,' a recycled plastic bottle LED lantern pavilion in celebration of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.