Article continues below With NASA promising to put the first humans on Mars by 2030, Dutch company Mars One has unveiled a concept space suit for the first intrepid astronauts to wear when they ...

The Mars One suit concept. The space colonisers will have 3D printers with them to print replaceable parts such as nuts and bolts and even fabric used in the construction and maintenance of the ...

one of the biggest challenges has been how to protect astronauts in the harsh environment of space. Spacesuits have traditionally been bulky, hard-to-wear items, but the "Biosuit" concept at MIT ...

A designer’s quest to build a better space suit has inspired a new ... printed from recyclable materials. Part of her concept was for the suits to support biological processes capable of ...

Most of these concepts will require at least a decade of development, so it's not likely we'll see spider-inspired space probes anytime soon.

She has covered weird animal behavior, space ... suits. SuperLimbs are hoped to solve this problem in the future. The system's motor, limbs, and controller are designed to be contained in a ...

Nasa's next generation of space suit - the agency's first in 20 years ... On the rear will be a giant backpack which doubles as a hatch that can latch onto another space ship or Rover-like ...

It may sound gross, but it's actually an upgrade. A team of researchers has developed a prototype for a space suit that may one day allow astronauts to drink their own pee while in space.

The concept is currently ... times when they’re outside in their space suits. But in the unlikely event of a disconnection, astronauts also wear a jet backpack known as SAFER that they can ...

NASA is running out of space suits, and new ones are years away from ... NASA currently uses 11 of the 18 original backpack-like life support systems, which were updated with glove heaters ...