Scientists show recycled human waste can unlock nutrients in Martian dust, offering a new path for farming on Mars.

Dining on the moon or Mars might seem like a fantasy reserved for science fiction, but researchers are investigating how it could become a reality.

Learn how recycled sewage may help turn moon and Mars soil into fertile ground for growing food in space.

Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an engineering problem with a biological answer. Instead of shipping steel and concrete ...

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way. Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against ...

What would it take to make a cobb salad on Mars? How would you grow the lettuce, or raise the chickens? NASA launched a challenge Tuesday that aims to answer questions like these. “Astronauts on ...