For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining, a reliable source of home-grown food will be a must. It ...
The Curiosity Mars rover has detected intriguing chemical evidence, in the form of anomalous amounts of manganese oxide, ...
For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining ... The crops were grown in simulated Martian regolith - ...
The most surprising revelation from NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover—that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater—has ...
While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking ...
Feb. 28, 2024 — Organic materials discovered on Mars may have originated from atmospheric formaldehyde, according to new research, marking a step forward in our understanding of the possibility ...
NASA has big plans for space farms and there are plenty of ideas from astrobiologists for what the best crops to grow on Mars ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about biodegradable plastic, simulating growing crops on Mars, and how deer are disrupting caribou populations.
Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on early Earth—some of which may ...
May 1—After almost 12 years probing Mars, the Curiosity rover is still making discoveries that have scientists, well, curious. The rover has detected unusually large amounts of manganese in rock ...
A unique phenomenon that could be mistaken for spiders scuttling across the planet's surface has been spotted on Mars, according to the European Space Agency. The ESA said in a news release that ...