We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to ...

Mars is an attractive candidate for colonization for several reasons. It is relatively close to Earth, with journeys taking ...

If these lava tubes are anything like Earth's, they could be the perfect place for astronauts to hunker down during their stay on Mars. "There's more than one of these [pits] on Mars that we've ...

Can humans even live on Mars? In a perfect universe, we would change Mars to be more like Earth. However, the technology necessary to terraform another planet is even more science-fiction than ...