If you thought the Mars One mission (a.k.a. the one-way ticket to the Red Planet in the name of reality TV) sounded oddly appealing, you were hardly alone. Newly released numbers from the Dutch company organizing the project show that the contest has ...

Mars is cold, has a very strong radiation environment, no magnetic field, a very low-pressure atmosphere and it’s all carbon dioxide, so you can’t breathe there. And there are no nutrients to grow anything in the ground, David Alexander, director of ...

A one-way ticket to Mars sounds like a suicide mission, but a lot of people are interested in getting one. Two years ago, a Dutch group called Mars One created a competition to find applicants and more than 200,000 people signed up. Now the selection ...

We haven't quite reached the point where the human race is actually establishing colonies on Mars, but such a thing seems more likely than ever. That's not just because of the efforts of companies such as Space X, which aims to establish a self-sufficient ...

This article is a speculative piece based on the European Space Agency (ESA) Strategy 2040 plan for the future of space exploration. Dr. Orson Sutherland, a program manager responsible for Mars exploration at ESA,

If you were to watch the above video without any background, you may think it’s a trailer for the latest space disaster movie. But you’d be wrong. Mars One announced last Monday that they will being accepting applications from people 18 years or older ...

In his deeply researched book, David Baron examines the true alien believers at the turn of the 20th century. (Liverlight) In the early 20th century it was widely thought that there was intelligent life on Mars, and that we actually knew something about ...

A trip to Mars would be the adventure of a lifetime. Just ask the 78,000-plus people who signed up to move there, as part of Mars One’s hypothetical colonization project. But it would also be really, really unpleasant. And we’re not just talking about ...

Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its expanding alliance with SpaceX, the Italian Space ...