Humanity’s first homes on Mars may not be poured from concrete or assembled from sleek prefabricated modules, but grown from living microbes that turn alien dust into stone. Instead of shipping heavy ...

Humans have set foot on the Moon. Their next stop is Mars. The Red Planet, once draped in a thick atmosphere, now has thin air rich in carbon dioxide that thaws by day and freezes at night. Moreover, ...

In collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has developed a sustainable method for making bricks out of ...

How can engineers design bricks on Mars for future habitats despite the toxic Martian regolith, also called perchlorates? This is what a recent study published in PLOS One hopes to address as an ...

Since humanity’s first steps on the Moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central objective of international space agencies, targeting long-term extraterrestrial ...