Imagine the adaptations and challenges of a human life on Mars.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and one of our closest neighbors in space. But it’s not a very welcoming place for an Earthling to visit.

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing celestial objects from the Kuiper Belt—which are full of the necessary light ...

Although Nasa has dubbed it ‘Skull Hill’, you can breathe easy that it is not literally a skull of an alien rolling around ...

Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s ...

Dean Regas: So, can private space companies send people to Mars? Or at least help governments get to Mars? Most sky watchers were kind of betting on Elon Musk and SpaceX to lead the way ...

Mars is back on the agenda. During his address to a joint session of Congress in March, President Donald Trump said the United States "will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars, launching ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben Tutolo, a University of Calgary associate professor of Earth, Energy, and ...

A 30-foot-high inflatable version of the planet Mars, part of an exhibit at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., rolled away towards the highway last week ...

Could people breathe on Mars? – Jack J., age 7, Alexandria, Virginia Let’s suppose you were an astronaut who just landed on the planet Mars. What would you need to survive? For starters, here’s a ...