For years, space poop has been handled by NASA the old-fashioned way—diapers. But as the agency gears up to send humans into deep space, it needs a new method that can handle an emergency situation in ...

NASA Johnson Space Center, in partnership with NASA Tournament Lab and online crowdsourcing platform HeroX, today announced three winners of the widely publicized Space Poop Challenge. he global ...

With the prospect of life on the seven planets recently discovered, astronauts will increasingly search and explore the relatively close environments. The question that plagues many minds as the new ...

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More than 20,000 concerned citizens from 130 countries answered NASA’s viral call for a better way to help astronauts poop themselves whilst in space. Open-prize platform HeroX eventually winnowed its ...

Thatcher Cardon, a physician and in-flight surgeon for the U.S. Air Force, is the winner of NASA’s Space Poop design competition. Space suits are notoriously heavy, cumbersome, and uncomfortable. To ...

In Dakar, Senegal, residents can drain their septic tanks by manually emptying pits or by hiring truck drivers to take the poop away. Hiring a truck driver is too expensive for many residents, and ...