When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Published in New Phytologist, their work is paving the way for growing plants in space, a critical development for sustaining ...

NASA is treating food as mission-critical hardware for Mars, designing future habitats where crops grow alongside ...

A new roadmap for plant science and technology breakthroughs needed to make long-term human life on the Moon and later Mars possible has been ...

The search for past or present life on Mars should be the top priority for the first human mission to the Red Planet, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet. The U.S. space agency's Perseverance and Curiosity ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed. Scientists have announced the ...