For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling everything from Earth and the difficulty of building safe shelters on a hostile ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered an unusual iron- and nickel-rich rock on Mars that scientists believe may be a meteorite — a fragment that originated elsewhere in the solar system. During its ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places where resupply from Earth is slow, expensive, and limited? Machines and ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...

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.'' ...