As space missions to Mars gain momentum, scientists are looking beyond rockets and landing systems. There is a growing focus ...
After NASA's glory days of putting astronauts on the moon in the 1960s and '70s, its crew stayed closer to home. That all changed earlier this month with the Artemis II mission, and few things excite ...
Scientists have discovered that Aspergillus calidoustus, a fungus found in NASA clean rooms, can withstand extreme conditions simulating space travel and the Martian surface. The spores endured high ...
NASA is reserving a small amount of space on a Mars telecommunications spacecraft for science, which could be one or more ...
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Study: Deep-space-hardy fungus could survive a trip and hitchhike to Mars
Inside the ultra-clean rooms where NASA assembles its Mars-bound spacecraft, the air is filtered, the surfaces are scrubbed ...
A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That ...
NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie at a site on Mars where it drilled a sample to search for organic molecules in ...
The Artemis II astronauts, all in their 40s or 50s, flew a little more than 4,000 miles from the Moon, higher above the ...
NASA and SpaceX have unveiled the members of Crew-13, who will travel to the International Space Station in September.
It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin ...
The Curiosity rover conducted a first-of-its kind experiment on Mars, detecting organic molecules that have never been ...
Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...
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