It has been centuries since Galileo became the first man to observe Mars through a telescope, and yet our interest in the red ...

Primitive plants could survive and the sunlight that hits them, while weaker than on Earth, is enough for photosynthesis. However, Mars’ weaker gravity might struggle to hold its new atmosphere. Zach ...

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn more about its past. NASA and China plan to send astronauts/taikonauts there ...

Aside from SpaceX’s Elon Musk, arguably the biggest advocate for human Mars exploration has long been Mars Society President Robert Zubrin. An aerospace engineer by training, Zubrin has been preaching ...

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If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way. Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against ...

The resoluteness of NASA's ambitious vision to send astronauts to Mars—a round-trip voyage of more than a billion miles once limited to science fiction—appears stronger than ever, albeit not without ...