Described as the “perfect space crop,” the nutritious and ready-to-eat fungus could be a key stepping stone toward fueling ...

When Eric Philips boards SpaceX’s Dragon capsule next month, he’ll carry an unexpected organic payload: oyster mushrooms. One ...

Reconstructed Mars samples (humans are still yet to ... realistic depiction of an astronaut forced to survive by growing his own food on a Martian space base. Before Mars could become self ...

We grow food obviously, we grow trees, we make things out of the threes, you’ve got to build all of that on Mars,” he said. “And Mars is a hostile environment, it sometimes gets above zero on a warm ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

Fresh from his SpaceX company’s rescue of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station, inventor Elon Musk is already looking at building a sustainable city of 1 million people on ...

A Güntner cooling system is helping NASA and the DLR test greenhouse technology that could one day feed astronauts on the ...

The company is working on turning moon sand into soil that can be easily used to grow crops with technology developed by the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) and put ...

A team of scientists has identified a plant capable of surviving and growing in the harsh conditions of Mars, according to a report by The Guardian. This research is the first to explore the ...

“We grow food, obviously, we grow trees. We make things out of the trees. There’s, you know, you’ve got to build all that on Mars. And Mars is a hostile environment,” Musk explaine ...