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 ...

The first crewed mission to Mars is still years away, but preparations have been underway for a long time. And part of getting ready means knowing what astronauts need to do to survive when they get ...

NASA has set its sights on sending astronauts to Mars sooner than most people realize. The ambitious plans include preparing for crewed missions in the coming decades, with a focus on technology, ...

How can engineers design bricks on Mars for future habitats despite the toxic Martian regolith, also called perchlorates?

In the last ten years, researchers have started to characterize Mars less as a perpetually frozen desert and more as a planet that went through a tremendously ...