October 2024
Space exploration remains a crucial endeavour for humanity
...Plenty Unlimited is one of several companies building on NASA plant-growth research to bring agriculture into the urban environment....Biomass Production Chamber that demonstrated how to grow plants without sunlight and open air. Scientific and ...
12 June 2015
Why impact glass on Mars is a major discovery
... here on Earth. In particular, a 2014 study of an impact glass from within an impact area in Argentina provided organic plant molecules and plant matter than had been “entombed” when impact occurred. It is therefore possible that Mars impact glass...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
...’e 4 spacecraft. Its arrival will make history and once planted firmly on the ground, communication with Earth will be difficult...sealed container with seeds and insect eggs to test whether plants and insects could hatch and grow together in synergy on...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... Space Agency (ESA) have set up a prototype oxygen plant at their Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory, housed within their... team have long-term goals in mind and a ‘pilot plant’ that could operate sustainably on the Moon is already being ...
02 January 2021
Life beneath glaciers is good news in the search for life on icy worlds
... chemosynthesis. This is similar in principle to how plants generate biomass from carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, although ... out of the atmosphere is another key process performed by plants and one which is vital to help regulate our climate...
15 March 2021
Engineers propose a "Lunar Ark" to preserve millions of species' DNA on the Moon
...an ambitious project to safeguard the future of millions of animal, plant and fungi species on Earth by cryogenically freezing seed, spore, ... bit surprised about that." Building an ark to preserve plant and animal life might seem far-fetched, but the ...
