The Curiosity rover has spent over a decade on Mars, uncovering astonishing discoveries and revealing the hidden history of ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese geologists has created a Mars soil simulant that almost replicates Utopia Planitia soil, a ...

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

What might go wrong when a spacecraft lands back from orbit, bearing not just the remains of 166 people but the hopes of ...

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

A 14-year-old from Pleasanton is using cutting-edge artificial intelligence in hopes of solving a problem that occurred ...

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

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

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 ...

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.