For a few reasons, yes, humans should colonize Mars. First of all, it’s not as if we’re sending humans out to space without preparation or planning; it’s an incremental idea.

A blue-ribbon panel on human spaceflight recently declared Mars to be NASA's ultimate objective, but admitted humans aren't going there any time soon. In fact, the Augustine panel appointed by ...

Establishing a permanent colony of humans on Mars is not an option. It's a necessity. At least, that's what some of the most innovative, intelligent minds of our age — Buzz Aldrin, Stephen ...

Mars has called to us since ancient times. To humans across the eons, the red-tinted speck glinting in the night sky has garnered special attention, with myths and legends wound around its ...

Public passion is all well and good, but it will take more than big talk to get to Mars by 2025, space specialists say. Even several rockets' worth of cash won't easily solve the technical challenges.

Humans have looked at Mars for centuries with lust in their eyes. Over the past six decades or so, they've even reached the place, indirectly, by means of spacecraft. And yet, until now they've ...

The best places for humans to land on Mars are ones that rovers already scouted beforehand, Calef argues. “Everyone knows the rover landing sites are flat and safe.

Going from (maybe, possibility, extremely optimistically) launching an uncrewed test flight in 2026, to getting actual humans to Mars within the next 10 years? Not a chance.

Before we consider going to Mars, it's worth remembering just how dangerous spaceflight can be. To date, 14 astronauts and four cosmonauts have been killed during spaceflight.

"If we don't improve our pace of progress, I'm definitely going to be dead before we go to Mars," said Elon Musk at the ...

Hero astronaut Chris Hadfield says we could’ve sent humans to Mars in the 1960s — but there’s a very good reason we didn’t. The former International Space Station commander … ...