In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...

Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...

The allure of space exploration has driven humanity to achieve remarkable feats, from landing on the Moon to maintaining a ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

NASA wants a lunar habitat on the surface of the moon in less than ten years. NASA is keeping its foot on the gas for the ...

The Dream of Mars Colonization Elon Musk’s vision for Mars extends beyond a single mission—he hopes to establish a permanent ...

NASA’s Artemis program plans to return humans to the Moon this decade to practice and prepare for a Mars mission as early as the 2030s. While NASA has several reasons for pursuing such an ...

Additionally, a human-piloted mission to Mars will take around six months and could expose astronauts to levels of radiation that could lead to sickness, DNA damage, cancer, and potential death.

and the first crewed mission to Mars by the 1980s. Can you imagine watching astronauts walk on Mars the same time the walkmen came out? But NASA never sent humans to Mars in the '80s. And here we ...

So what are some of the most promising technologies? Solar electric propulsion could be used to send cargo to Mars ahead of a human mission. That would ensure equipment and supplies were ready and ...