NASA is working on an exciting mission to send humans to Mars in the next few decades. To make this happen, the agency is ...

Life on Mars is a dream long held – and not just for David Bowie. The idea of settling on the Red Planet has been around for ...

Mars has a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide, endless expanses of dusty landscape, and about one-third of Earth's gravity. Can humans even live on Mars? In a perfect universe, we would change Mars ...

The planet is the seventh largest and is currently inhabited solely by robots. However, the space agency is working hard to ...

Paying homage to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy of books and to the film Interstellar, our readers consider the upsides ...

Sending humans to Mars is one of the most ambitious goals in the history of space exploration. Unlike missions to the Moon, ...

since only closely-related species can reproduce. Moving to Mars may be the best chance for humanity’s survival. But it may not be humans who live there, in the end.

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...