Next time you're driving around on Mars and need to get your tire replaced, chances are good it'll look something like a ...

Challenges to Mars construction Of course, there are other factors besides material availability at work in such a construction project. Here on Earth, we have centuries of experience building in ...

This technique could enable the construction of settlements on the Moon and Mars using local materials, minimizing the need ...

University of Manchester scientists have created a new material, dubbed ‘StarCrete’ which is made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of salt and could be used to build homes on ...

NASA is therefore eager to get the Mars material — about 30 cigar-sized, sealed tubes containing rock cores and sediment — home, and then on to laboratories around the world. But doing so has ...

it’s not clear why there also wasn’t the same amount of material near Mars so that it might grow to be the same size, Matthew Clement, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s ...

Samples from Mars have never been obtained and returned to Earth, and NASA is still hashing out how it plans to achieve that milestone. The tubes will contain material from the surface that is to ...

Living on Mars will be a physical challenge and forcing astronauts to constantly donate blood would hamper progress on all other projects on the Martian surface. Also, the material’s low density ...

Professor Coleman said: “Constructing a semi-permanent base on the moon or Mars will require maximal use of materials found in-situ and minimisation of materials and equipment transported from ...