Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Future missions to Mars may want to dig into ice rather than rock. Scientists say ancient microbes, or traces of them, could be locked inside Martian ...

NASA is running a new scientific study on the International Space Station (ISS) to understand how certain fermented foods and useful nutrients behave .

This emerging field of space radiobiology has strong and perhaps unexpected links to the far better established discipline of ...

Space is tough on materials. Radiation, UV light, atomic oxygen and sharp temperature swings can degrade metals, polymers and coatings over time. This article looks at the current ways researchers are ...