For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

Mars has been sold as a bold escape plan, a backup world for a species that keeps testing the limits of its first one. The harder I look at the technical and ethical record, the more that dream reads ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Rovers on Mars have made exciting finds and ...

One of the plotlines for season 4 of the hit TV series “For All Mankind” is an attempt to use a Mars colony as a base to mine the asteroids of the main belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It ...

Former President Barack Obama has been out of the White House for more than seven years. But, on occasion, he still makes news and creates controversy. Obama recently appeared at a renewable energy ...

He may or may not be buying MSNBC, but Elon Musk isn’t taking any put-downs from Neil de Grasse Tyson on his Mars ambitions. The entrepreneur responded today to deGrasse Tyson’s barbed comments on ...

The New York Times reported Elon Musk had volunteered his sperm as part of SpaceX's plans to build a city on the red planet.

Human missions to Mars could be at risk after new research revealed that long-duration space travel can impact the structure of astronauts’ kidneys. Samples from more than 40 space missions involving ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Diorama Builder: Mars Colony This expansion of DIORAMA BUILDER brings the “MARS COLONY” diorama, which will allow you to build a real exploration colony on ...