Toward sustainable living in space: A review of environmental control and life support system technologies
March 2026
As humanity prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, sustainable human presence in space will depend on Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) that are more...
A scoping review on microgravity medicine: Challenges and breakthroughs in space healthcare
September 2025
Human space travel is revolutionizing dramatically. Upcoming space missions are pushing all the boundaries of modern human technologies, with increased travel distance and duration than ever before....
Evaluating AI approaches for space weather prediction: Strengthening satellite resilience and technology systems
December 2025
The growing reliance on satellite communications, navigation systems, and power grids has amplified the need for accurate and timely space weather prediction. Traditional empirical and physics-based...
Functional foods for astronauts: Enhancing health and performance in microgravity and extreme environments
June 2025
Space missions expose astronauts to extreme environmental conditions, including microgravity, radiation, and limited food variety, which pose significant challenges to health and performance. Functional...
Synthetic biology-driven microbial protein factories for space
June 2026
The establishment of self-sustaining protein production systems is critical to overcoming the nutritional and logistical challenges of long-term human space exploration. Advances in synthetic biology...
Autonomous AI agents as the envoys of mankind: A new kind of challenge for Space Law
March 2026
This paper examines the regulatory challenges posed by autonomous AI agents under current International Space Law (ISL). It argues that treating AI solely as a space object (under the existing liability...
Oral health in space: Understanding impacts of microgravity and developing countermeasures for space applications
September 2025
Space oral medicine is an emerging interdisciplinary field dedicates to preserving oral health during space missions, managing dental conditions throughout extended spaceflights, and utilizing the unique...
Taking advantage of spaceflights for breeding of medicinal plants
June 2026
The cultivation of medicinal plants for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) faces significant challenges, including germplasm degradation and limitations in conventional breeding strategies, leading...
Research on the impact of extraterrestrial lava tube environments on human survival and countermeasures
June 2025
Lava tubes, formed by the flow and cooling of volcanic lava, have been discovered on the surfaces of multiple celestial bodies within the solar system. Due to their excellent protection against meteorite...
Challenges and potential technologies for cultivation of plants for human sustenance in space
September 2026
Plants are indispensable for sustaining human life during long-duration space missions by providing food, oxygen, water recycling, and psychological well-being. However, crop production beyond Earth...
Observation, sources, formation, and climate effects of stratospheric aerosols: A review
September 2026
Stratospheric aerosols (SA) are key components of the stratosphere, and small changes in their loading or composition can trigger significant radiative, chemical, and dynamical responses that influence...
On the lunar missions and post-mission disposal
December 2025
This paper aims to achieve two primary objectives. Firstly, it seeks to selectively review existing literature and establish a framework for post-lunar mission disposal. The framework will provide guidance...
Space habitation: Machine learning based evaluation and optimization of critical parameters affecting sustainable space habitats
March 2026
Sustainable human habitation in space requires advanced predictive frameworks that can manage complex, interdependent systems. Current habitat models often rely on rule-based or simplified simulations,...
Cognition of lunar architectural spaces under simulated gravity via HUT10° and 2-hour lower limb compression
June 2026
With the continuous advancement of crewed lunar exploration programs worldwide, the habitability and human-centered design of lunar architecture capable of supporting long-term habitation have emerged...
A closed-loop in situ biomanufacturing approach for bioplastic production using coupled anaerobic-aerobic bioreactor technologies during deep-space operations
September 2026
As space agencies pursue deep space exploration and plan for extraterrestrial bases, logistical re-supply remains a significant barrier. The exploration of closed loop systems that recover resources...
Advancing lunar exploration extravehicular spacesuits: Opportunities and challenges of intelligent fabrics
December 2025
As human lunar exploration progresses towards long-term lunar surface operations, the existing extravehicular spacesuits are facing significant technological bottlenecks in terms of sustainability,...
Physics-guided representation learning for resilient sea surface temperature forecasting in satellite monitoring contexts
September 2026
Accurate forecasting of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is important for Earth system science and satellite-supported environmental monitoring. Numerical models are physically based but computationally...
Improved in-situ lunar construction via energetic multi-fuel thermite reactions
June 2026
Restricted by high costs of space transportation, in-situ manufacturing and construction techniques must be further researched and optimized to enable the sustainable development of lunar infrastructure....
Detecting anomalies in space-object light curves using temporal-attention LSTM
September 2025
The increasing density and activity of space objects have raised significant concerns regarding space situational awareness. Light curves offer a non-intrusive, cost-effective means to monitor these...
Integrating AI and IoT for sustainable management of martian habitats: A SWOT and AHP analysis
June 2026
This study investigates the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) in the sustainable management of Martian buildings. Given the challenges posed by resource limitations,...
Research on function-behavior-structure-based software engineering methodology for software defined systems
June 2025
Software Defined Systems (SDS) separate hardware from software, allowing for rapid adaptation to demand changes via reconfiguration. Traditional software engineering methods struggle with function reuse,...
Parametric design and optimization for lava tubes-like lunar arch habitation with large span
June 2025
Establishing a permanent lunar base is essential for prolonged human habitation, scientific exploration, and resource exploitation on the Moon. This paper proposes a novel habitat that merges the features...
Design of high anti-offset LCC-S wireless charging system for lunar surface service robots based on dual-coupled magnetically integrated coils with zero phase angle input
March 2026
Aiming at the problems of traditional face-to-face magnetic coupling mechanisms in the wireless charging scenario of Lunar Surface Service Robots (LSSR), such as lunar dust pollution interference, material...
Space moss: Life reboot of Syntrichia caninervis in the extraterrestrial in-orbit environment
September 2026
The scale application of plants in space is severely limited by their high-energy dependence on life support systems and poor extreme stress tolerance. To address the extremely limited resources and...
Multi‐Object Tracking of 3D faint space objects via cascade detection and transformer based motion modeling
September 2025
Tracking faint objects in deep space poses three major challenges in aerospace exploration: low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), motion noise interference, and multi-view matching. This paper proposes an...