For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

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, ...

Colonizing Mars may be a near impossible task, but that doesn't mean humans won't try anyway. Check out what a successful ...

Starship spacecraft enables Mars colonization with reusable design, orbital refueling, and 100+ passenger capacity for ...

In an interview earlier this year, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, delivered a sobering assessment of Earth’s future, suggesting it may not be able to support humanity for much longer. SpaceX ...

This book’s strength lies in its authorship: it is not written by a physicist enthralled by the engineering challenge of Mars ...

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Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Rovers on Mars have made exciting finds and ...

In a similar vein - it was only a few years ago that fellow Arsians were telling me that it was impossible to build a drone that was capable of carrying living people, that the physics math didn't add ...

What makes colonizing Mars a good idea? Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Is probably the best example but it mostly uses the backdrop of Mars as a plot device ...