For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began with similar ingredients—rocky surfaces, carbon, water, and sunlight—but ...

A groundbreaking study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences suggests that a remote rock quarry in Algeria ...

A desert moss could be the key to terraforming Mars, according to a recent study published by Chinese scientists. Due to its extraordinary resilience, Syntrichia caninervis (S. caninervis), a moss ...

Syntrichia caninervis, a desert moss, demonstrated exceptional resilience to extreme conditions mimicking the Martian environment, including prolonged freezing temperatures (-196°C), high radiation ...

The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA) has become a major sponsor of the Mars Society’s Mars Desert ...

Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Charis Adams has always thought of going into space, and Oct. 24, she will — sort of. Adams, a 16-year-old Coeur d’Alene student, was selected to be a member of Crew 266 of the ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. If you’re a living organism, the ...

A Martian spacecraft spied a Martian rover rumbling through the red desert. "The image marks what may be the first time one of the agency’s Mars orbiters has captured the rover driving," NASA said in ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – A passionate teacher can make any subject come alive for students, and NASA is helping to fuel that passion. On March 25-30, 2007, NASA’s Spaceward Bound project at the ...