A new study published in the science journal PLoS ONE suggests that the ancient farming technique of intercropping could help ...
Jérémie Périn takes to another planet for 'Mars Express,' whose weighty ideas and sleek hand-drawn animation make for a ...
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.
For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining ... The crops were grown in simulated Martian regolith - ...
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 ...
NASA has big plans for space farms and there are plenty of ideas from astrobiologists for what the best crops to grow on Mars ...
For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining, a reliable source of home-grown food will be a must. It ...
Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past ...
While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking ...
Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on early Earth—some of which may ...