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

Mars has been sold as a bold escape plan, a backup world for a species that keeps testing the limits of its first one. The ...

For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

There are substantial technical, political, and financial obstacles to starting the colonization of Mars within the next few decades. SpaceX is farther along than most toward this ambitious goal. Are ...

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 ...

The planet Mars has played an outsize role in human imagination since we first looked up at the stars. The fact that this red dot and other planets wandered the sky made them distinct from the stars ...

(RNS) — It makes more sense to spend money saving the Earth from climate change, ecological destruction and international conflicts than it does going to Mars. (RNS) — The planet Mars has played an ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...