Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like The Martian where an astronaut is scratching ...

NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget ...

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A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...

NASA officials explain how the International Space Station supports Artemis and future Mars missions through life support testing, human research, partnerships and commercial development in low Earth ...

NASA is treating food as mission-critical hardware for Mars, designing future habitats where crops grow alongside life-support systems instead of arriving only in cargo holds. The agency’s long-term ...

A problem with the Mars Antenna, a giant NASA radio dish in California, has disrupted the Deep Space Network's spacecraft communication efforts, as well as asteroid studies, since Sept. 16, 2025.

Mars may have had its own version of an Ice Age that reshaped parts of the Red Planet and carved deep "scratches" in its surface that remain visible today. New high-resolution images from the European ...

Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But with NASA planning a human mission as early as the 2030s, that will soon ...

When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December 6th, ground controllers expected a temporary loss of signal (LoS).

The biomedicine outfit BioAstra aims to send its researcher on a flight around the Moon, aboard the leading-edge Orion spacecraft, to chart genetic changes triggered by cosmic rays and to develop anti ...