The next resupply mission to the International Space Station will include a virtual reality headset for astronauts to wear in order to feel less lonely. “Astronauts are essentially isolated during ...

NASA has shared footage showing astronauts using VR headsets to learn what it will be like aboard the Lunar Gateway space station. The Lunar Gateway will orbit the moon and be used mainly for getting ...

Astronauts are already practicing living aboard the first space station around the moon by using virtual reality. NASA's budding moon-dwellers are exploring the yet-to-be-built Lunar Gateway space ...

Last week, NASA released a new crowdsourcing competition to build out a virtual reality Mars simulator. The agency would be able to use the simulator to prepare astronauts for the various scenarios ...

NASA has released a series of virtual reality (VR) tours that give viewers an inside look at the ongoing effort to bring crewed spaceflight and launch capabilities back to American soil. The videos ...

Years after the advent of decent VR hardware, there are still precious few ways the technology has been employed as anything other than a game or gimmick. One team at NASA, however, has been ...

While NASA has a long history of sending probes and rovers into space, advancements in robotics has made deployment of human-like robots an increasingly attractive prospect. But it turns out that ...