Mars bar won’t have beer, but dandelion wine is a possibility. Villanova students participating in “Red Thumbs Mars Garden Project” have been nurturing plants that might someday thrive in greenhouses ...

This means that plants on Mars would grow at about 60 percent of the rate of Earth plants, even when exposed to full Mars light. Watney's habitat was designed to block radiation, which would lower ...

In general, imitation Mars proved much better for plant growth than fake moon—and it even slightly outperformed the Rhine River soil. Test your space food safety On smaller Mars, the gravity is ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Some Villanova students spent the last semester growing crops in Martian soil to see what future space travelers might eat on the red planet. It was called the "Red Thumbs ...

Mars never had oceans as some researchers have claimed, but instead is a cold, dry planet that was pounded by water-bearing asteroids and showered with scalding rain that carved vast gullies and ...

Take a look at his Mars garden. The conditions in the soil here are as similar as possible to what we might find on Mars. He’s been harvesting it for the last 5 years.

These Mars rocks would look lovely along a garden path. NASA/JPL-Caltech The images shared by NASA show the rover checking out the "pavers" with the gear on the end of its robotic arm.

A group of researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands have successfully grown edible food crops in soils that simulate the soil composition of the Moon and Mars. Garden cress, radish, ...

In the year that BBC One’s 1970s era police show proved such a ratings hit it was perhaps appropriate that an entry nicknamed the "Life on Mars Garden" should win the Chelsea Flower Show ...