Humanity’s first homes on Mars may not be poured from concrete or assembled from sleek prefabricated modules, but grown from living microbes that turn alien dust into stone. Instead of shipping heavy ...

Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go about it and how close is close enough for our purposes? How would we let life ...

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Landing on Mars once felt like a distant dream. Now, space agencies have sent rovers and landers to explore the Red Planet for decades. Scientists worldwide are thinking about how to make Mars a ...

Models suggest that clear ice, sourced and distilled on Mars, could offer a feasible alternative for building stable off-world structures.

Although there are many who dream about one day living on Mars, there’s been one challenge to plans for eventually settling on the Red Planet: access to water, which would be vital for any kind of ...

The cosmos has long been a canvas for creatives who imagine a future where people live among the stars. Now, humanity stands at a pivotal juncture as the laborious, expensive and high-stakes process ...