Scientists propose using ice as a building material for Mars habitats, offering protection from radiation while allowing ...

Guided by Mars rovers’ data about Martian soil composition, the researchers explored multiple microbial mineralization ...

It's been a week since NASA locked four people inside a mock Mars habitat for the next year and we've just received our best glimpse yet at what life inside the simulated space base is like. Located ...

As NASA promised in March, we have far more information about the space at the heart of the agency's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), which aims to study how humans might ...

New research explores how microbes could turn Martian soil into building material and support life systems, offering a potential path for constructing human habitats on Mars using local resources ...

Houston, TX. – What will life be like for humans living on Mars? Four researchers selected by NASA will help answer that question. They’ll be living and working in a 3D printed, 1,700 square foot ...

Our homes are the places that define us; those warm private spaces that we depend on for work, respite, and haven from the harsh realities of the wider world. On Earth, the buildings and dwellings ...

Highlighting its intent to send humans to Mars, NASA has announced that it will soon be embarking on a year-long simulation of a Mars mission using four research volunteers. Ross Elder, an ...

Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand—NASA unveiled on Tuesday its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on future ...

Attention space enthusiasts! NASA is inviting the media to witness a historic moment on Tuesday, April 11, as the agency opens the doors to its simulated Mars habitat located at the Johnson Space ...

Nasa just announced it has found liquid water on Mars. On Sunday, the space agency announced the winners of its 3D-printed habitat challenge at the New York Maker Faire - structures that could ...