Mark Watney had some good ideas about growing crops on Mars.

NASA is running a new scientific study on the International Space Station (ISS) to understand how certain fermented foods and useful nutrients behave .

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

Nasa’s Curiosity rover has been investigating the spider-web-like rock formations found on Mars – and found mysterious ...

This meant subjecting microbes to minimum pressures equivalent to ten times those of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025. Here's what happened.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

We've entered the third month of 2026, and the Starship rocket has yet to make its debut this year. Here's what Elon Musk's ...

Mar. 2—"Gateway to Mars," the unofficial moniker for SpaceX's Boca Chica/Starbase complex, sometimes extended to Brownsville ...

SpaceX's Starship hasn't launched in months from Texas. A new, more powerful version is coming that could be the one to go on ...

The historical Wrigley Mars factory, closed in 2024, was slated to be redeveloped into 500 residences and other amenities. Unsatisfied with those plans, neighbors have released their own proposal for ...