NASA has launched a competition to help develop food sources for astronauts on Mars. The winning idea might even help people ...

Scientists have studied the driest regions of the Atacama Desert to understand whether life could exist on Mars ...

NASA has opened a global competition inviting chefs, scientists and innovators to help solve one of the biggest challenges of ...

Before humans set foot on Mars, NASA must first understand how people can survive there. In the Mars Dune Alpha mission, ...

American space agency is on the search for the perfect food system for Mars missions, launches the Deep Space Food Challenge: ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

While it's easy to romanticize space as an escape to a pristine frontier where people will float weightlessly among the stars ...

Two Americans and astronauts from Japan and Russia landed in a SpaceX capsule in the Pacific Ocean after a medical issue ...

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

Elon Musk and President Trump’s detente may benefit them, but restoring Musk’s influence and access to NASA funds offers little to the public; a Mars colony is costly, risky and misguided.

For years, the Moon has sat quietly in the background of space news, always present but rarely urgent. That has begun to ...