Space has the ultimate element of surprise: we never know what we will learn from it next. Space and the potential for life ...

A sustainable Martian food system is possible—but innovations must be paired with equitable polices to make lasting change.

Could we feed a city on Mars? This question is central to the future of space exploration and has serious repercussions on ...

Agricultural technologies to grow food on Mars can help address climate change, sustainability, and food scarcity challenges.

This is because on Mars — where each gram of organic matter, milliliter of water and photon of solar energy is scarce — there can be no inefficiencies. The "waste" products of one part of the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has dropped the tenth and last sample tube that will form a backup "sample depot" on the red planet ...

After the success of 2019's Deliver Us the Moon, Deliver Us Mars developer KeokeN Interactive earned the right to tell a more ...

Is it a bear? A wolf? A “doge?” The internet has mixed opinions on an image released by NASA showing what looks like a bear’s face on Mars. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

A strange formation that resembles a bear's face was captured on the surface of the Red Planet by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last month. Two perfectly placed craters make up the eyes ...

(Woke-personship?) That’s what happened at Mars. The M&M public relations strategy was to turn a popular family brand woke overnight. The stated goal was, "creating a world where everyone feels ...

NASA's latest discovery on Mars may just be the cutest one yet. Last week, the operator of one of the space agency's satellites shared a December photo of the red planet's mysterious surface with ...