For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a specific region that could finally turn that ambition into a practical flight ...

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two differences alone could drive a host of evolutionary adaptations. First off ...

Robots are already rewriting the script for Mars. While human crews remain grounded by medical, political, and financial limits, machines have quietly turned the Red Planet into a testbed for long ...

Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit ...

Arthur Clarke, screenwriter for the blockbuster film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has been resurrected as an advanced OpenAI chatbot to help map out the transformation of Mars into a new Eden for humanity ...

What are the most ideal landing sites on Mars for the first human missions that can provide maximum survivability while also exhibiting the potential for finding life beyond Earth? This is what a ...

Temple Beth El in Williamsburg was recently once again a forum for a Sunday lecture. This time it was Dr. Joel Levine, who spent 41 years as a senior research scientist in the Science Directorate at ...

Elon Musk took to X to proclaim that SpaceX would focus on building out a base on the moon before sending humans to Mars.

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping construction materials from Earth, researchers are exploring how to use ...