For anyone curious about what it's like to stand on another planet, Earth offers a few convincing previews. Mars may be 140 ...

Starship spacecraft enables Mars colonization with reusable design, orbital refueling, and 100+ passenger capacity for ...

Othmar Schmiderer wanted to avoid "fear-mongering or finger-wagging" but sees a "possible colonization of distant planets as ...

Analog missions are designed to simulate the crew’s experience in a given mission plan. In some cases, they simulate surface ...

“The closer it is to the sun, the more a planet becomes dominated by the sun’s gravity,” Kane said. “Because Mars is farther ...

A journey to Mars is the ultimate human challenge, spanning nearly a thousand days across millions of kilometers with no ...

In the midst of climate change, awareness of humanity’s negative impact on the planet has grown, making the idea of moving to ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

What we see is sobering. In our simulations, electrodes can fracture during the deep freeze of a lunar night. Under direct ...

Somewhere between science fiction and extreme tourism, a Moon hotel just started taking reservations. It sounds unreal, but ...

The zoos may be closed due to weather, but that's not stopping their residents from enjoying it. Yes, even the locations swamped by snowfall managed to get ...