Ville Santala, a biotech professor at Tampere University in Finland, is helping to tackle the plastic pollution crisis by using genetic engineering to create plastic-gobbling bacteria. According to a ...

Could recycled sewage grow crops on the Moon and Mars? This is what a recent study published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how recycling plant ...

The ancient Japanese art of paper folding, origami, is finding applications in the design of future space technologies. Researchers at Brigham Young University, led by Larry Howell, have developed a ...

Some asteroids hold more iron, nickel and cobalt than Earth's reserves, presenting options for off-planet construction, fuel production and radiation shielding for future space colonies. Multiple ...

Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentially paving the way to more sustainable and cost-effective space missions, a new study suggests. Using a special laser 3D ...

O’Neill made his space colony idea profitable by having them build solar power satellites. Huge solar arrays would be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a pivot from Mars to the moon, one detail of his plan caused eyebrows to raise. Musk plans to ...