The astronauts selected for the first human mission to Mars will need to have more than “the right stuff.” People on this yearslong mission will need to possess an eagerness for doing the ...

NASA is seeking a second round of participants willing to live on a fake version of Mars at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, for one year, ahead of human exploration of the actual ...

More than 200,000 people have signed up to be prospective astronauts, Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp said in Washington on Tuesday. Apparently, they’re OK with living out the rest of their lives on Mars.

Elon Musk set out SpaceX's timeline for getting humanity to Mars this week. He said SpaceX plans to send five Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, with crewed missions following two to four years later.

Abigail Harrison, known on social media as 'Astronaut Abby,' has launched The Mars Generation, a nonprofit organization to get people excited again about space exploration.

People could land on Mars in the next 20 to 30 years provided scientists can find water on the red planet, the head of NASA's surface exploration mission said on Wednesday. IE 11 is not supported.

A NASA-funded study is focusing on the psychological impact of a potential mission to Mars. For the past eight months, six people have been living in a self-sustaining 1,000 square-foot dome on ...

This week, Elon Musk made the staggering claim that a city of one million people will be thriving on Mars within 30 years. Now, a leading scientist has warned that Musk's plan could prove disastrous.

Mars One is planning on sending a group of people to colonize the planet on a one-way mission in 2022. The company is also expected to send a lander to Mars in 2018.

Six people spent that time living in a dome on a rocky volcanic plain on the island of Hawaii. The NASA-funded experiment was meant to simulate a long-term settlement on Mars.

Elon Musk has admitted that “a bunch of people will probably die” in the race to get to Mars. The SpaceX pioneer made his blunt prediction as he laughed at how his planned Mars mission was ...

This can be seen in real-world Mars mission simulations, such as the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) missions, which places crews of six people in a simulated Mars ...