Space agencies have taken great precautions not to contaminate celestial bodies with Earthly microbes – but some scientists believe introducing our germs to Mars could be beneficial. A new paper has ...

Chances are, humanity will screw things up here on Earth—big league. Even if we manage to settle our differences and use science and technology to fix our problems, some big space pebble will ...

Sending humans to Mars has always seemed a distant dream. But in recent years, cheap access to space, the steady arrival of Mars rovers to explore the surface and the ambitions of billionaires like ...

Bad news for those who struggle with anxiety, get too competitive or simply choke under pressure: new research suggests that you may have to stay home on Earth while other, more laid-back and ...

What was once considered the stuff of science fiction may become a reality in just a few decades: human life on Mars. What lessons can we learn from the past to avoid repeating the same mistakes on ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're coming.

Finally, we launch into Musk’s ultimate quest — his desire to colonize Mars — and how he went from wanting to save earth to ...

Ah, Mars. The place that dreams are made of. As long as those dreams involve a poisonous, tenuous atmosphere, inhospitable cold and lots and lots of red. Still, people seem to want to go there. But ...

To study life on the red planet, people from around the world volunteer to live with strangers in the middle of nowhere The Mars weather is beautiful today, and an astronaut is about to suffocate to ...

Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. In fact, the billionaire says it could happen within four years. He also says we could be living in a self-sustaining city on the red planet in the next 20 years.