Space has the ultimate element of surprise: we never know what we will learn from it next. Space and the potential for life ...

Agricultural technologies to grow food on Mars can help address climate change, sustainability and food scarcity challenges.

This is because on Mars — where each gram of organic matter, milliliter of water and photon of solar energy is scarce — there can be no inefficiencies. The "waste" products of one part of the ...

In 1957, the boundaries between Earth and space were first breached: The USSR launched the satellite Sputnik into space, ...

After the success of 2019's Deliver Us the Moon, Deliver Us Mars developer KeokeN Interactive earned the right to tell a more ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has dropped the tenth and last sample tube that will form a backup "sample depot" on the red planet ...

One set has been placed at the depot while the other set remains on the rover. The plan is for the Mars Sample Return mission — currently set for the early 2030s — to use a robot to collect ...

NASA's latest discovery on Mars may just be the cutest one yet. Last week, the operator of one of the space agency's satellites shared a December photo of the red planet's mysterious surface with ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has finished building its backup sample depot on the Red Planet. The car-sized Perseverance rover just stashed the last of the 10 sample tubes that comprise the depot.

This is because on Mars—where each gram of organic matter, milliliter of water and photon of solar energy is scarce—there can be no inefficiencies. The "waste" products of one part of the ...