Normally used to train spacewalking astronauts, one of the world’s largest indoor pools at, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, instead will test the skills this weekend of more than 40 ...

Before walking on the moon, future astronauts may go for a swim. The famed Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has trained hundreds of spacewalkers since 1992 ...

A Virginia-based company has transformed the section of a submerged training facility to help Artemis astronauts train for upcoming moonwalks. Reading time 3 minutes Teams at an underwater facility in ...

To simulate the microgravity of space, astronauts have practiced in an extremely large, 40-foot deep swimming pool in southeast Houston for more than 15 years. Now, with the retirement of the space ...

Amalfunctioning pump in a vital cooling system onboard the International SpaceStation sent NASA scrambling to plan two emergency spacewalks this week toreplace the faulty component module. At the ...

Everyone knows the expression “go big or go home,” but former NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober lives by a slightly different principle – “go home and make something really big.” It’s why he built the ...

Thirty-one student teams from across the country will test their designs in simulated microgravity this year as part of NASA’s Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) activity.

NASA is tracking a new asteroid the size of a swimming pool that has a 1 in 600 chance of impacting Earth. It is estimated to make its closest approach to Earth on Valentine's Day in the year 2046.

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found that many early distant galaxies bear a striking resemblance to everyday objects like pool noodles. Rather than the familiar spirals or ...