NASA's Curiosity rover has made its first measurements of the radiation environment at Mars' surface, gathering information that could help prepare future astronauts for stays on the Red Planet.

Life on Mars sounds like something from a "Doctor Who" episode. But a study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology challenges the science fiction notion of that idea. The research ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Escapade mission, run by UC Berkeley, will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian ...

When NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, arrives at the Red Planet next month, it will help pave the way for the humans that might one day follow. In addition to looking for signs of current and past ...

As scientists prepare for possible Mars missions, they’re examining a fungus found at the radioactive site in Chernobyl, Ukraine, that could turn radiation into energy. The fungus, known as ...

LOS ANGELES Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much cosmic radiation as they d get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported Thursday.