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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...