For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining, a reliable source of home-grown food will be a must. It ...
The most surprising revelation from NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover—that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater—has ...
Feb. 28, 2024 — Organic materials discovered on Mars may have originated from atmospheric formaldehyde, according to new research, marking a step forward in our understanding of the possibility ...
The Curiosity Mars rover has detected intriguing chemical evidence, in the form of anomalous amounts of manganese oxide, ...
While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking ...
For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining ... The crops were grown in simulated Martian regolith - ...
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.
Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on early Earth—some of which may ...
NASA is looking for a new way to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth. Those samples are being collected by the Perseverance rover in Mars' Jezero Crater, which hosted a lake and a river ...
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 ...
Jérémie Périn takes to another planet for 'Mars Express,' whose weighty ideas and sleek hand-drawn animation make for a ...