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 ...

Every child grows up looking at the stars. After that, we follow a billion different paths through life. Some people push their sense of wonder into the background, focusing on pragmatic concerns.

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If you are interested in learning more about the engineering and design of the latest NASA Perseverance Mars rover, which successfully touched down on the surface of Mars last month, you are sure to ...

Genetic engineering may be a big part of our future on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If humanity is ever going to settle ...

PASADENA, CA, June 1, 2009 – MDA Alliance has delivered the engineering model of the robotic arm that will be used on NASA’s upcoming Mars Science Laboratory, a roving, jeep-size geology lab scheduled ...

The dean of CU Boulder's College of Engineering & Applied Science is a former NASA chief technologist. Here he talks about the moon, Mars and why we should think there's life on other planets. There’s ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars for over a decade. MAVEN, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, ...

First came Aelita: Queen of Mars, a silent film from 1924 about a Russian engineer who moves to the Red Planet and falls in love with its leader. In 2015’s The Martian, Matt Damon fertilizes alien ...

Shayna Hume and a team of fellow students are trying out life on Mars through a unique Earth-based experience. An aerospace engineering PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Hume recently ...