Ford workers told their CEO ‘none of the young people want to work here.’ So Jim Farley took a page out of the founder’s ...

Bhavishyaa Vignesh, a student at The Knowledge Society San Francisco, is trying develop an AI-powered model to help Mars ...

North Charleston Academic Magnet High School students win first at international NASA contest aimed to research growing crops ...

Scientists have created living communities of bacteria and fungi that could survive in protective habitats on the Red Planet.

Imagine printing your Martian home from dust, sunlight, and a bit of biology. A new synthetic lichen system uses fungi and ...

Martian soil — or regolith — isn't exactly ideal for plants from Earth. It tends to be rocky and coarse, and lacks the right organic matter.

Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of ...

The soil, which was developed by NASA to be as close as possible to what space travelers would be working with on Mars, was mixed with pig manure and then “seeded” with adult earthworms.

This demonstrates that the Martian soil acts as an excellent insulator, significantly reducing the large temperature differences at shallow depths – by 10 to 20 times more than Earth's near-surface ...