Agricultural technologies to grow food on Mars can help address climate change, sustainability and food scarcity challenges.

This is because on Mars — where each gram of organic matter, milliliter of water and photon of solar energy is scarce — there can be no inefficiencies. The "waste" products of one part of the ...

A Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth 12 years ago contains a "huge diversity" of organic compounds, including one that has never been seen on Mars before, a new study has found. The findings ...

Since the 1990s, several architectures have been drafted for crewed missions to Mars, all of which have ... providing oxygen and organic compounds to support the filamentous fungi.

NASA's Perseverance rover has dropped the tenth and last sample tube that will form a backup "sample depot" on the red planet ...

It may also help scientists get one step closer to answering one of their big questions: Was there ever life on Mars? In a ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover just dropped its 10th sample tube, completing a backup depot of material for future return to ...

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NASA has revealed where samples collected on Mars will be handled once they make it back to Earth. The space agency just announced the launch of its Mars Sample Receiving Project office at Johnson ...

This is because on Mars—where each gram of organic matter, milliliter of water and photon of solar energy is scarce—there can be no inefficiencies. The "waste" products of one part of the ...