The International Space Station (ISS) is an ultra-sterilized environment, but this excessive hygiene could have detrimental ...

Humans have evolved alongside microbes in Earth's environment that help strengthen our immune systems. But sterile living ...

Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A ...

“Future built environments, including space stations, could benefit from intentionally fostering diverse microbial ...

The results, detailed in a statement, showed that human skin was the primary source of microbes in the ISS and that chemicals ...

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

Adding more microbes to the ISS could actually benefit the astronauts who spend time there, new research suggests.

"We hope the impact of this research will be to guide future studies that keep astronauts healthy during extended space ...

Some of the health effects astronauts suffer on the International Space Station (ISS) may not be a consequence of ...