If we were ever to send humans to Mars for a long-term or permanent visit, then it’d be essential that we develop some sort of renewable food source. One idea would be planting vegetables in Martian ...

NASA is treating food as mission-critical hardware for Mars, designing future habitats where crops grow alongside life-support systems instead of arriving only in cargo holds. The agency’s long-term ...

Imagine harvesting fresh vegetables and strawberries while gazing at the Moon’s barren surface or Mars’ red landscape. This futuristic scenario is becoming increasingly possible, thanks to ...

Tiny pits, webbing patterns, and a dusting of nanoparticles are not what most people picture when they think about farming. Yet those small scars may end up mattering if you ever try to grow food on ...

SALT LAKE CITY — When the day comes that plants are growing on Mars, Bear River High School's Sarah Pace may well be their "gardener." Working with NASA and cultivating flora on the red planet are ...

We could raise Mars’s average global temperature by tens of degrees within a few decades. SpaceX Starship combined with proposed new warming techniques, could potentially raise Mars’s temperature by ...

(Nanowerk News) The fertilizer is based on cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae. They have several properties that make them particularly suitable for the use on the Red Planet: They can use ...

Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier – Mars. To get there, we’ll need sustainable sources of food, medicines and materials. As researchers who work on engineering plants to ...