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

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.

Progress MS-30 (or Progress 91) will deliver three tons of "gifts" (food, fuel, and supplies) for the space station crew.

The International Space Station may be too sterile – and the astronauts on board could benefit from it being a little dirtier ...

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

A Russian booster rocket placed the Progress MS-30 spacecraft in Earth orbit early on Friday, sending it on its way to the International Space Station with a cargo of equipment and supplies, Russian ...

US researchers have created the first 3D map of the microbes on the International Space Station, finding a lack of microbial diversity could be causing astronauts to get rashes, cold sores and other ...

There may be logic in keeping spacecraft as sterile as possible, but this could inadvertently be affecting astronauts' health ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore remain calm and optimistic on the International Space Station, 250 days into ...

SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronauts are set to fly to the space station on March 12. But in many ways, their journey to orbit started ...

A new study suggests that some austronaut health issues could be due to the "excessively sterile" nature of spacecraft. The ...