The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

In a nutshell Scientists engineered a self-sustaining system using cyanobacteria and fungi that can grow on Martian soil ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Mars, often called the Red Planet due to its distinctive rusty color from iron oxide on its surface, is Earth’s neighboring ...

A novel synthetic lichen system uses fungi and bacteria to autonomously create building materials from Martian soil, ...

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient ...