Mars has become the ultimate blank canvas for human ambition, a place where science fiction promises forests under a salmon sky and oceans filling ancient basins. Yet the closer scientists look at the ...

For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

Scientists believe that future human settlements on Mars may rely on metals extracted from asteroids for construction.

The hottest real estate market in the solar system is officially open for business. Elon Musk announced this week that SpaceX has launched a formal waitlist for residential property on Mars, with ...

Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very similar to classic river deltas on Earth. These are traces of rivers that ...