As humanity sets its sights on colonizing Mars, one of the biggest challenges we face is ensuring astronauts can grow their own food. Without fertile soil, sustaining a colony on the Red Planet seems ...

After a successful trip around the moon, everything has been going smoothly on the Orion spacecraft's journey back to Earth—except for the $23 million toilet, which has gotten clogged. The system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first-ever toilet in deep space barely made it into orbit before NASA astronauts had to roll up their sleeves and make some ...

NASA’s Artemis II crew is contending with a persistent malfunction in Orion’s $23 million Universal Waste Management System, which has repeatedly clogged during the mission. The issue, likely linked ...