Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open ...

“Mars One,” Brazil’s submission for the International Oscar category this year, is a family drama about a boy who wants to colonize the red planet. The title that suggests sci-fi, which director ...

Sometimes, the simplest stories are the most monumental. A boy wants to be an astronaut, a girl falls in love, a father lives out his dreams through his son. This is the stuff of life — nothing more, ...

Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just ...

Mars is a fascinating planet in our solar system. Over the years, space organizations have done a great deal of work to further explore Mars, including projects to get crews to the red planet. Mars ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

There’s a strange synchronicity in watching writer-director Gabriel Martins’ latest feature “Mars One” as Brazil rejoices in the recent re-election of Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva for a third term. The ...

While humans may be starry-eyed about sending people across the solar system to live on Mars one day, the discovery of a "relict glacier" on the red planet could mean that dream is one step closer to ...

How Should We Design Cities On Mars? The challenges of living on Mars will no doubt rewrite some of the rules of urban design. But by redefining how we interact with nature--and with ourselves--space ...

Spirit, the untiring robotic “wonder child” sent by NASA to explore the eerily earthlike fourth planet from the sun, has completed one martian year–that’s almost two Earth years–on Mars. Designed to ...