One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or tundra on Earth? Parents who make this simple mistake raise ‘mentally weak ...

Farming on Mars may sound like science fiction, but recent breakthroughs in space agriculture are bringing us closer to making it a reality. With NASA successfully growing plants in lunar soil and ...

"Even hurricane-force wind on Mars is going to feel like having paper balls thrown at you." Farming on Mars might actually be easier in real life than in the movie. Watney grows his own food on ...

The design for the Mars Science City, as it's called ... calls for the use of an agricultural technique called vertical farming. Instead of natural sunlight, crops would grow under LEDs on ...