The next step in space exploration isn’t generations away. It’s happening right now. And our destination? That mysterious, ...

Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an engineering problem with a biological answer. Instead of shipping steel and concrete ...

Forget bricks and mortar, scientists hoping to build houses on other worlds are turning to two unexpected building materials: gelatin and yeast. Mars is a terrible place to build a house. It’s ...

Scientists plan to 3D print houses on Mars — after being inspired by freeze-dried fruit. They have cooked up a recipe that they say could one day be used to construct buildings on the red planet. Mars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Curiosity Mars rover takes this selfie in 2020 after drilling a rock sample from a site named after British paleontologist ...

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 ...

Engineers who design building methods for Mars habitats mostly plan to cook the ground first. Heat crushed rock above 1,830°F (1,000°C) and it fuses into blocks strong enough to stack, but a furnace ...

Living building material can be 3D printed under simulated Martian conditions at 30°C and 0.01 atm (left). A microscopic view reveals the materials porous structure with polymers and engineered yeast ...