In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

Today, Mars is known as the red planet, for its rust-colored desert landscape. Once upon a time, Mars was a very different ...

When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another ...

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 ...

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