By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars may reveal groundwater lasted longer than scientists thought.

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

How can Martian regolith (often mistakenly called “soil”) be used to benefit human exploration? This is what a recent study published in the In | Space ...

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Just like the Scarecrow of Oz, it turns out the rover was smart all along, it just didn't realize!

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

How would colonizing Mars alter us physically and mentally? Would permanent residence on the red planet make us somehow less ...

In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet's ancient past have shifted. A growing body of evidence supports the ...

When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes. But the poles are hard to access, and even more so given the ...