For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese program, a commercially driven SpaceX campaign, and a methodical NASA ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

Mars to Table builds on NASA’s first Deep Space Food Challenge by seeking to integrate multiple food production and ...