The rover carries several swatches of spacesuit materials, and scientists are assessing how they’ve held up after four years ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant ...

US President Donald Trump talked about it in his inauguration speech this year. Such an epic endeavor could help to answer ...

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

Outlining plans for living and working on Mars, the space agency is focusing on oxygen, food, water, power, spacesuits, ...

Elon Musk aims to colonize Mars despite challenges such as its extreme climate, thin atmosphere, and lack of liquid water.

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

If Mars becomes a human colony is anyone’s guess. Musk said 2016 that it would take 40 to 100 years to have a self-sustaining civilization on the planet. While Mars is quite barren, dusty, and chilly, ...

Elon Musk predicts a self-sustaining Mars colony within 20 years, requiring one million people and massive cargo shipments.