NASA has quietly taken a major step toward crewed missions to Mars by selecting four people to live and work in a sealed, ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Starting Sunday night, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at Johnson Space Center. The team is simulating what it would ...

"Sporosarcina secretes natural polymers that nurture mineral growth and strengthen regolith, turning loose soil into solid, ...

Four volunteers are spending a year in NASA's 3D-printed Mars habitat, simulating life on the Red Planet. This mission, ...

Humans on Mars In a conversation this week hosted by non-profit organization Explore Mars, Inc., Green and Penelope Boston, Director of NASA's Astrobiology Institute, considered how humans can safely ...

As global warming continues and space technology improves, there is more and more talk about the growing possibility of a sci-fi future in which... This is what living on Mars could do to the human ...

For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has touted his ambitions to send people to Mars as a way to preserve the human race. On Friday, he’ll give an update on his plans. Musk announced the SpaceX Mars 2026 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

If you thought the Mars One mission (a.k.a. the one-way ticket to the Red Planet in the name of reality TV) sounded oddly appealing, you were hardly alone. Newly released numbers from the Dutch ...