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Second, Mars is abundant in the raw materials required for humans to “live off the land ... Generating fuel on the surface would also make any future habitat less reliant on electric or ...

Colonizing Mars might be the best chance to ensure the human species survival in the future. In order to adapt to Mar’s hostile living conditions, our bodies will evolve in ways that might end ...

Should we be littering Mars? Yes. Yes we should—and future humans will cherish our “space litter” from these, the first steps of exploration, according to scientists. More images of "space ...

The first humans to set foot on Mars will be greeted ... incorporate private spaces in their Martian home designs. "A habitat on Mars needs to be large enough for everyone to have a space they ...

Paying homage to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy of books and to the film Interstellar, our readers consider the upsides ...

Elon Musk wants to send humans to Mars to establish the first Martian cities. But Mars is big. It's a planet, after all. So where should we put the first cities? The North or South poles?

Scientists have identified regions on Mars where conditions might support microbial life beneath the surface. Seasonal methane variations and Earth-based studies of similar environments suggest ...

DEADLY space radiation and rapid outbreaks of disease are just a few of the official Nasa dangers that visitors to Mars will ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

And, their weight and design mean they can also travel beyond Earth’s immediate neighborhood, potentially ferrying humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond. By moving into orbit with its Commercial ...