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

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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 ...

Mars has captured humanity’s imagination for decades, but the reality is far darker than the dream. The planet offers no air, ...

According to a Mars colonization simulation conducted by a team of American researchers using a model imitating Mars, the minimum initial population for successful colonization is only ``22 people.'' ...

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 ...