When British astronaut Tim Peake was on board the International Space Station (ISS) recently, he admitted that the question he gets asked most by the public is how astronauts poop in microgravity ...

NASA has partnered with the crowdsourcing platform HeroX in its search for the next lunar toilet. Do your, uh, duty and design the next toilet that astronauts will use on the moon. The prize for ...

Pooping in space “isn’t glamorous, but it is necessary for survival,” an astronaut explains—yet it’s presenting quite a challenge for NASA. See, while the International Space Station has a pretty ...

For over a decade, Bill Gates has had a distinct focus on toilets. As part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge launched in 2011, part of an effort to transform ...

America is planning a return to the moon. Only this time it plans on staying a little longer. And when humans live anywhere certain questions must be addressed. Where will they find shelter? How will ...