Growing crops on Mars might seem like science fiction, but an international team of researchers believes a microscopic ally ...

Surprisingly, a toxic compound found on Mars could help bacteria produce brick-like substances that could be used to assemble habitats on the Red Planet. In 2025, researchers at the Indian Institute ...

Mission planners with the UA-led Phoenix Mars lander gave the spacecraft an extra day to dig around in the red planet's dirt Tuesday, after they weren't satisfied with the results of an earlier test.

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way. Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against ...

Tiny pits, webbing patterns, and a dusting of nanoparticles are not what most people picture when they think about farming. Yet those small scars may end up mattering if you ever try to grow food on ...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover sent an image more than 352 million miles back to Earth of its first scoop of Martian material. The land was lifted from the ground yesterday is 1.8 inches wide and 2.8 ...

The distinctive light and dark dirt patches on Mars led to warming of that planet, according to a study. Mars' surface air temperatures have increased 1.17 degrees Fahrenheit since 1970, researchers ...

The Mars Sample Return Mission is facing budget cuts that will likely delay it to 2040, so NASA is looking for a plan B. The Mars Sample Return Mission is facing budget cuts that will likely delay it ...

construction and test of the flight Model PAW, the ‘eyes and hand’ of the Beagle 2 Mars lander. The Beagle 2 project aims to send a UK-led lander to Mars in December 2003 as part of the European Space ...