Mark Watney had some good ideas about growing crops on Mars.

Preventing the unintended contamination of extraterrestrial bodies is a key concern for space explorers, and these findings suggest the regolith on Mars is resilient—at least to tardigrade infestation ...

Learn how water bears (tardigrades) reacted to simulated Martian regolith, what the results reveal about toxic compounds in ...

Tardigrades are renowned for their exceptional survival skills, but one environment has been found to test them to the limit.

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

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The discovery of the molecules was made with Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which examined a Martian rock named Cumberland. This is ...

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When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes. But the poles are hard to access, and even more so given the ...

How would colonizing Mars alter us physically and mentally? Would permanent residence on the red planet make us somehow less ...

Curiosity has been exploring a region filled with boxwork formations, which formed billions of years ago when water leaked through rock cracks.

In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet's ancient past have shifted. A growing body of evidence supports the idea that Mars was once warm and wet. Now researchers are focused on the ...