On the outskirts of Houston, four people have been living a version of the future that most of us only see in science fiction. For more than a year, they have been sealed inside a mock Martian base, cut off from real-time contact with Earth,

After giving us such incredible innovations like pens that write upside down and ice cream that tastes bad (and a pretty huge portion of modern technology), NASA is looking earthside for its next breakthrough.

CapFrameX is a frametime capture and analysis tool for checking in-game performance, based on Intel's PresentMon and leveraging some of the UI from the Rivatuner Statistics Server. It's been around for years and has remained a useful tool for many a gamer, but now it might get tapped by NASA to test its next-generation simulators.

According to a social media post by the official CapFrameX account, the US space agency has "expressed interest" in using the application to asses the FPS

The prospect of living on other planets, easily achieved in fictional Hollywood productions, isn't so simple for the scientific community. The amount of research and data it takes to accomplish such a feat is staggering. But NASA is taking baby steps, with ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Remcom has received a new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from NASA to develop enhanced wireless channel modeling capabilities for antennas mounted on astronaut spacesuits and ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Starting Sunday night, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at Johnson Space Center. The team is simulating what it would be like to live on the planet Mars, and they started ...

MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies, or METECS, will provide simulation and advanced software services to NASA under a potential five-year, $150 million ...

The sandbox portion of the Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA has selected four crewmembers for its second 378-day simulation of living and ...

NASA’s next crew of “astronauts” won’t leave Houston, but they will live like they’re 140 million miles away — sealed inside a simulated Mars habitat for 378 days. NASA said last week that four research volunteers — Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis ...

NASA has issued a sources sought notice for the next Simulation and Software Technology Contract, currently held by L-3. The space agency is interested in procurement approach, small business and organizational conflicts of interest. NASA has kicked off ...