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

Synthetic lichens could transform Martian dust into self-growing habitats for future Mars bases and 3D printed buildings.

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

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.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

A Texas A&M research team has developed synthetic lichens that could be the answer to self-growing structures on Mars.

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

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

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

To address this, a Texas A&M University engineering professor collaborating with University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...