To prepare for NASA 's first journey to the moon in over half a century, the crew of the Artemis II spent the summer training in Earth's most moon-like environment.

Iceland has served as a lunar stand-in for training NASA astronauts since the days of the Apollo missions, and this summer the Artemis II crew took its place in that long history. NASA astronauts ...

NASA agrees: the agency has repeatedly used Iceland as a stand-in for the Moon, and it's doing so again as it prepares astronauts for new missions off-world.

Recently, NASA sent a team of over a dozen scientists and engineers to Iceland to test new Mars exploration techniques in a lava field that closely matches the Mars landscape.

This summer, the German Aerospace Center is testing instruments for NASA's VERITAS Venus mission on Iceland's lava flows, a stand-in for the hellishly hot planet.

A lava stream from a volcanic eruption in West Iceland is brighter than the lights of the city's nearby capital, new infrared images show.

NASA Earth Observatory images of the infrared heat over Iceland on December 18, before the eruption of a new volcano, and after the eruption on December 19.

The U.K. based aerospace company, Space Solar, plans to launch its space-based solar power plant by 2030 to deliver clean energy to Iceland, which is already a renewable-energy powerhouse.

Science News: NASA has captured satellite images of hot lava from Iceland's recent volcanic eruption. The eruption, which began on November 20, has led to lava flow ...

A long tradition of picking the island Iceland has been used for astronauts since the 1960s, according to a press release from NASA.

NASA agrees: the agency has repeatedly used Iceland as a stand-in for the Moon, and it's doing so again as it prepares astronauts for new missions off-world.