Future Mars astronauts may use microbial life to produce the building materials for a permanent human colony on the Red ...

Landing on Mars is only the beginning of the nightmare. This video explores why the red planet is a toxic, frozen desert where every breath of air and drop of water must be manufactured. We expose the ...

NASA’s Johnson Space Center reminded everyone on Monday that its four volunteers have been inside its Mars simulation habitat for a whole month now, though they still have 344 days to go before they ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and ...

Agency says it may have found signs of life on the Red Planet Mars during a press conference about comet 3I/ATLAS ...

As global warming continues and space technology improves, there is more and more talk about the growing possibility of a sci-fi future in which... This is what living on Mars could do to the human ...

Radiation, extreme cold, dust storms, not mention a lack of oxygen: There are plenty of things that can kill an astronaut on ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ...