If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

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

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these ...

He thinks that humans waging nuclear warfare on the ... but they think the fact that Mars is smaller than Earth has something to do with it. It all boils down to gravity. Earth’s iron sank ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars ... But a Polish scientist says the physics of growing Earth's hardiest plants on Mars are too out of reach - and a more extreme route ...

Trump aims to send a crew to Mars by the end of his term, which Musk calls 'doable.' Astronauts question the time frame but ...

Long-term exposure to Mars dust may pose serious health risks to astronauts, including lung damage and thyroid issues.

With space leaders, such as SpaceX's Elon Musk, setting sights on putting humans on Mars, space medicine will become increasingly important. On long-duration missions to Mars – or even the moon – ...

Under SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's vision, humans could then land on the Red Planet in 2029, though he admitted 2031 is "more ...