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The overly sterile environment of the International Space Station is missing important microbes, a new detailed map shows. If we want to live off Earth, we may need to take more of our bacterial frien

The ISS’s microbial environment most closely resembles a hospital isolation room. It could be making astronauts sick.

The International Space Station may be too sterile – and the astronauts on board could benefit from it being a little dirtier, according to a new study. When astronauts spend time on the ISS, they often experience immune problems, skin disorders and other conditions.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s call to crash the ISS into the seas in 2027 is a bombshell proposal that, if echoed by NASA, will trigger a backlash across the Station allies.

Elon Musk recently called for the ISS to be deorbited "as soon as possible." Experts say the station provides vital research, technological development and education

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

As chairman of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Cruz effectively has control over Isaacman's confirmation process. He was also just re-elected to a six-year term, so theoretically Cruz is less susceptible to political pressure from the Trump White House.

Elon Musk's latest space-related hammer throw is to call for it to be deorbited as soon as two years from now.

Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A new study suggests that these issues could be due to the excessively sterile nature of spacecraft.

Russia launched its first spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025 on Friday. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Progress MS-30 cargo spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after midnight local time, according to the Russian space corporation Roscosmos.

Sterilisation protocols kill helpful microbes and may cause immune dysfunction, skin rashes and inflammatory conditions in astronauts