Moon habitation and missions to Mars face resupply challenges, which the Italian Moon-Rice project aims to solve with a bioengineered crop.

In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow ...

As most of the vehicles and machinery someday used on the moon will likely be solar-powered, this is a problem. But a new NASA grant will help University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular ...

NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s ...

As Imhof noted, “Low Earth orbit, where the International Space Station sits, is orbiting 450 kilometres above us. The Moon ...

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...

Learn how laser tech, 3D printing & bio-materials are reshaping off-Earth construction for lunar & Martian habitats.

Researchers show algae can grow in Mars-like atmospheric pressure conditions. If humans are ever to establish permanent ...

The ISS has been operational for well over two decades, but its days are numbered. Here's what the plan for human habitation ...

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

Freeze-dried foods first made their way into space during NASA’s Gemini Program, designed to sustain astronauts on missions ...

Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is visiting a home away from Earth that has seen continuous human presence ...