Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

In a complicated maneuver, NASA and ESA wanted to bring soil samples from Mars to Earth. But that won't happen, the USA is ...

New research explores how microbes could turn Martian soil into building material and support life systems, offering a potential path for constructing human habitats on Mars using local resources ...

Experiments have shown that plants can grow surprisingly well in simulated Martian and lunar soil. The real issue isn’t a ...

Debuted at CES 2026, the SCARABS two-wheel lunar rover has a signed ispace mission and flight-tested onboard computer.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Congressional supporters of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission have buckled to pressure from the Trump administration to ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

On Monday, Congress made good on those promises, releasing a $24.4 billion budget plan for NASA as part of the conferencing ...

Yes, zombie creatures from another world could indeed land on a defenseless planet, but in a twist, it's the Earthlings who ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for ...