As humanity sets its sights on colonizing Mars, one of the biggest challenges we face is ensuring astronauts can grow their own food. Without fertile soil, sustaining a colony on the Red Planet seems ...

Dining on the moon or Mars might seem like a fantasy reserved for science fiction, but researchers are investigating how it could become a reality. Their efforts to recycle plant and human waste into ...

NASA to Earthlings: Help us farm Mars. The nation's space agency has launched an international competition to help feed astronauts stationed on Mars, asking for a two-week meal plan to feed an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA to Earthlings: Help us farm Mars. The nation's space agency has launched an international competition to help feed astronauts ...