Martian soil? Researchers at the University of Central Florida (USA) are selling it for $20 per kilogram, not including shipping costs.

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

In 1976, two landers conducted life-detection missions on Mars and received a positive which never fully cleared off. The biology package on the Viking mission was constructed to answer one ...

Two weeks ago, the world marveled when the Phoenix survived a 420 million-mile space journey and landed on Mars, right where it was supposed to. Now it's expected to analyze Martian soil to determine ...

IISC has been conducting research into brick analogues made from lunar and Martian soil for several years. As previously reported by the Indian Express in 2022, the bricks were created by mixing a ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can survive intense shock waves and toxic chemicals similar to those on Mars. The ...

Mars has long been painted as a dead world of dust and radiation, a place where human visitors would survive only inside thick metal cans. A wave of new research on bizarre, ultra‑tough microbes from ...

You know how smug tourists like to talk about how climbing volcanoes in Hawaii is out of this world? Turns out they're sort of right. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is finally starting to get some ...