Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

NASA is treating food as mission-critical hardware for Mars, designing future habitats where crops grow alongside life-support systems instead of arriving only in cargo holds. The agency’s long-term ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers tested what happens when a nutrient-rich liquid made from recycled waste meets fake Moon and Mars dirt. (CREDIT: ...

Two recent studies published in Scientific Reports explored how plants and microbes might survive in soils that mimic those found on the Moon and Mars. The results show that life may be able to grow ...

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

We could raise Mars’s average global temperature by tens of degrees within a few decades. SpaceX Starship combined with proposed new warming techniques, could potentially raise Mars’s temperature by ...

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 ...