WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the ...

Mushrooms are a nutritional powerhouse. They naturally contain vitamin D, potassium, selenium, and copper — nutrients astronauts typically obtain from a variety of foods like nuts, seeds, and ...

Heat exchangers are devices that whisk away heat, and they’re everywhere—used in data centers, ships, factories, and ...

A recent experiment has shown that certain lichen species can remain metabolically active in an environment similar to that ...

"Oyster mushrooms are the perfect space crop, helping astronauts meet their nutritional needs on long-duration space missions ...

"Successfully growing edible mushrooms in space represents a significant milestone for space exploration and sustainable ...

“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 ...

Astronauts will try to grow oyster mushrooms in ... nutritious and delicious food supply for the exploration missions to the Moon and Mars," Dr Fayet-Moore said. The Fram2 mission will also ...

First, mushrooms grow really rapidly ... like the kind we'll need to take to get to Mars. Can you imagine eating thermostabilized, dehydrated food for five years? I can't. The most important ...

First, mushrooms grow really rapidly ... like the kind we'll need to take to get to Mars. Can you imagine eating thermostabilized, dehydrated food for five years? I can't. The most important thing ...

The prototype of the 'lunar regolith processing' system created by inventor Lolan Naicker was built using a barbecue wood pellet feeder, a domestic microwave oven, and an auger from B&Q ...