Innovative microbial technology allows for autonomous 3D printing on Mars, using Martian materials to create sustainable ...

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

A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

NASA’s clean-rooms are meant to be the surgical suites of spaceflight—over-pressurised, HEPA-filtered boxes where not even a stray eyelash should survive. Yet ...

NASAs Curiosity rover has captured the first-ever close-up images of spiderweb-like “boxwork” formations on Mars, revealing ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

As humanity ventures deeper into space, one critical question looms large: how do we prevent Earth's microbes from contaminating other worlds? A new study published in Journal of The Royal Society ...

NASA's Curiosity rover finds strange rock formations on Mars. These look like spiderwebs. The rover spots these on Mount ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...

This review highlights how the unique stressors of space travel, radiation, microgravity, and circadian disruption impact ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that hovered around 0°C. This stable, warmer temperature could have served as a ...