The ground on Mars is full of nitrogen, a vital component for planet life, raising hopes that it might be more hospitable ...

Being a botanist, he figures out he can grow potatoes in the hab by fertilizing Martian soil with his own feces and moistening the soil with water generated by burning hydrazine, a flammable ...

But a team of researchers in The Netherlands have just raised a much more appealing crop of tomato, rye, radish, pea, leek, spinach, garden rocket, cress, quinoa and chives - in Martian soil.

As the atmosphere develops, the composition of the air can be tailored ... They need to introduce ammonia-producing microbes into the Martian soil that will convert nitrogen from the atmosphere ...

Nasa has unveiled a revised plan to bring samples from the surface of Mars back to Earth. The space agency has announced it ...

In initial tests, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered that Martian soil is an awfully lot like Hawaiian sand. The super rover, which has been since this past August, ran its over the past few ...

Depending on the region of the planet, Martian soil contains the right chemical composition for multiple types of concrete. After compiling geological data collected by past Mars landers and ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...

The soil, which was developed by NASA to be as ... such as the sharp edges of the martian dirt, could have dramatically halted the work and killed off the worms entirely, but the little critters ...

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Since touching down on the planet in May 2021, the Zhurong has marked China's inaugural venture into Martian exploration ... analyse the composition of rocks and soil, and probe the planet's ...