One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or tundra on Earth? Kristi Noem to be next secretary of homeland security, confirmed ...

The design for the Mars Science City, as it's called ... calls for the use of an agricultural technique called vertical farming. Instead of natural sunlight, crops would grow under LEDs on ...

"Even hurricane-force wind on Mars is going to feel like having paper balls thrown at you." Farming on Mars might actually be easier in real life than in the movie. Watney grows his own food on ...

Mars has barely any atmosphere — about 1% ... NASA is already making progress on farming in space. Earlier this year for the first time ever, astronauts on board the International Space Station ...