Anyone who steps onto Mars will be crossing a one-way threshold in more ways than one. The physics of getting there and back, ...

Here’s some exciting news. I guess. It appears that until 3 billion years ago, Mars was partly covered by water, at which time its atmosphere was blown away by the solar wind. But a recent study ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...

In a recent announcement, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has set a new target for human colonization of Mars by 2030. However, despite the ambitious timeline, experts in the field have expressed ...

He may or may not be buying MSNBC, but Elon Musk isn’t taking any put-downs from Neil de Grasse Tyson on his Mars ambitions. The entrepreneur responded today to deGrasse Tyson’s barbed comments on ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

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Putting a man on Mars seems less and less like a sci-fi plot and more like an inevitability — eventually. That, thanks to some of the world’s richest and most influential business moguls pinpointing ...

Former NASA astronaut José Hernández stated on Monday that human travel to Mars is far away. What Happened: During an interview with The Hill, Hernández said travel to Mars is still “a good 15 years ...

There's something big missing from our solar system — and that may be a good thing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Planetary ...

Scientists studying volcanic eruptions in Iceland say microbes begin colonizing new lava flows faster and more predictably than once thought.