For decades, scientists have theorized about how Mars reached its current state. Many believe that the Red Planet’s surface ...

Mars will enter the meticulous sign of Virgo, encouraging you to critique, improve and get your ducks in a row. Here's what ...

In simulations of Martian colonies, only a few dozen people—with the right personality traits—were needed to keep things running smoothly.

President Obama Really Wants People To Live On Mars : The Two-Way In an op-ed for CNN, the president wrote that he hopes to one day look at the night sky with his grandchildren and tell them that ...

The air is also largely carbon dioxide — good for planets, bad for people. We'd have to get used to dust storms. About every 26 months, it's summer on Mars, meaning prime dust storm season.

Mars has almost no oxygen; it's only one-tenth of 1% of the air, not nearly enough for humans to survive. ... Could people breathe on Mars? — Jack J., age 7, Alexandria, Virginia.

Put People on Mars by 2033—for the Good of the Nation. Opinion: A former Boeing exec, US astronaut, and ex-director of NASA Ames argue that the US must prioritize putting humans on Mars.

Researchers estimated that as few as 22 people would be needed to sustain a colony on Mars. But there are lots of caveats, and the new study largely misses the point of colonizing the Red Planet ...

SpaceX's Paul Wooster, principal Mars development engineer, provided a few tidbits Friday on where the first people SpaceX sends to Mars will actually live. ...

For people on Earth, that’s a poisonous gas at high concentrations. Fortunately, it makes up far less than 1% of our atmosphere. But on Mars, carbon dioxide is 96% of the air!