As NASA prepares for long-term bases beyond Earth, scientists are turning their attention to some of our planet’s tiniest ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

At first it was just one flower, but Emmanuel Mendoza, an undergraduate student at Texas A&M University, had worked hard to help it bloom. When this five-petaled thing burst forth from his English pea ...

NASA has plans for a permanent lunar outpost by the end of the decade, with human Mars exploration to follow. But as we set up base camps beyond Earth, human settlers in space will need to bring along ...

Space scientists have spotted a city-sized “butterfly” on Mars. A striking new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...

...or, at least that's what the . EET headline reads. And there there's the ice melting cryobot, aimed at Mars polar icecap exploration. I think if I were on a mission to Mars I'd prefer to use the ...

Earth isn’t doing so great. Thanks to human-induced climate change, the seas are warming and rising, while the land – in many places – is alternately choked in drought or inundated with floods. As for ...