Decades before modern rovers ever reached Mars, NASA scientists were already imagining permanent human colonies on the red ...

The mission to colonize Mars has captured the imagination of scientists and enthusiasts alike. With NASA and SpaceX leading the charge, the once distant dream of establishing a human settlement on the ...

The idea that humans could one day populate and even colonize Mars is one no longer confined to the realm of science fiction. Billionaire Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the vision of paving the ...

Transforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. Its atmosphere is also too thin to protect any living organisms from harmful ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has authored a second academic study, published this month in the journal New Space. The paper describes SpaceX's current plans for starting a Mars colony with a fully ...

It is 2025, and we are making the necessary steps to colonize Mars. That is the set-up to Red Planet, a sci-fi movie that is now 25 years old and manages to feel lightly optimistic, despite being ...

Directed by executive producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, MARS is an epic series following the exciting quest - in 2032 - to colonize the planet Mars. In this video, experts discuss what this ...

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

Charles Darwin and Mars? Where's the connection? The BBC's Howard Falcon-Lang, talking to ecologist Dave Wilkinson, says it lies in a little-known experiment on an island in the South Atlantic. Darwin ...

Astronauts train to scale a Mars volcano at an analogue site in France. Lava tubes that crisscross the Martian surface might provide sanctuaries for the first human explorers on the Red Planet. (Photo ...

Near the start of the 20th century, a strange phenomenon swept the country — "Mars Mania," a public obsession with the idea, pushed by astronomer Percival Lowell, that Mars was home to an intelligent ...