When Philip K. Dick imagined artificial beings in his book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," the question was whether machines could think and feel like humans. Today, NASA is posing a related, ...

SpaceX’s development of Starship marks a pivotal step in realizing Elon Musk’s long-standing ambition to colonize Mars. Exploring the motivations behind this audacious project and the technological ...

Directed by executive producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, MARS is an epic series following the exciting quest - in 2032 - to colonize the planet Mars. In this video, experts discuss what this ...

Decades before modern rovers ever reached Mars, NASA scientists were already imagining permanent human colonies on the red ...

The idea that humans could one day populate and even colonize Mars is one no longer confined to the realm of science fiction. Billionaire Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the vision of paving the ...

If you have 8 years to spare and would like to be one of the four lucky guinea pigs Dutch non-profit Mars One sends to the Red Planet, it’s time to hop in line. Mars One announced last year that it ...

Transforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. Its atmosphere is also too thin to protect any living organisms from harmful ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has authored a second academic study, published this month in the journal New Space. The paper describes SpaceX's current plans for starting a Mars colony with a fully ...

Charles Darwin and Mars? Where's the connection? The BBC's Howard Falcon-Lang, talking to ecologist Dave Wilkinson, says it lies in a little-known experiment on an island in the South Atlantic. Darwin ...

Near the start of the 20th century, a strange phenomenon swept the country — "Mars Mania," a public obsession with the idea, pushed by astronomer Percival Lowell, that Mars was home to an intelligent ...