WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the ...

A proposed Mars helicopter mission would search for signs of life, water and future human footholds in a vast volcanic canyon ...

“We’re not waiting for the future and some kind of magic,” Antonelli ... With a pair of Orion capsules equipped, Lockheed’s conceptual Mars “base camp” could house six astronauts ...

Astronauts may also leave the base to explore Mars' two moons firsthand. Eventually, the base could be a haven for future landing missions. Astronauts could take a lander from the base to the ...

A tense situation among members of an isolated base in Antarctica could foretell conflicts among astronauts on a long distance journey to Mars. The South African Antarctic research base ...

(Illustration by Adrian Mann/Future Publishing via Getty Images ... “but his understanding of why we need to go to Mars is off base.” “The reason why we’re going to Mars,” Dr ...