One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

"The important thing is that we build a self-sustaining city on Mars as quickly as possible ... and will serve as a test for future human missions.

The key threshold is when that city can continue to grow ... but said it could change depending on what future astronauts find on Mars. “I don’t think we’re going to find aliens,” he ...

NASA considering a number of designs for its future Mars colonists, from 3D-printed habitats to structures grown from mushrooms. To combat dangerous surface-level radiation on the Red Planet ...

evolving from a neighborhood of 300 residents to a city of 10,000. This design concept is a finalist in NASA's ongoing competition to design 3D-printed habitats for Mars. The competition required ...

With SpaceX technology, including Starship, and his dream of a successful Martian population, Musk's proposals are a prospect of a future ... to Mars colonization is when the city can sustain ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Carl Sagan spent his childhood immersed in Mars. The future scientist, an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ...

WELCOME to Mars - where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the Red Planet has the benefit of a 24-hour day - about 37 minutes longer ...

The investigation into the fatal accident led to major design changes for future launch vehicles ... potentially ferrying humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond. By moving into orbit with its ...

While Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protect the planet from these solar events, Mars has no such protection. But the sun's solar particles could be a boon for studies of — and travel to ...