Mars planners are increasingly treating ice not just as a resource to drink or split for rocket fuel, but as a structural material that could shape the first real neighborhoods on another world.

At no other time in history have we had the technology, the know-how, and the public enthusiasm to get humans to Mars. Orion is NASA™s spaceship that will take humans into deep space, but it needs to ...

When Elon Musk founded SpaceX (which is currently one of the most valuable private companies in the world), he did so with the dream of setting up colonies on Mars. A lofty goal, mostly because we've ...

Robert Zubrin, Presiden of the Mars Society, has developed an updated Mars plan that builds on his original Mars Direct proposal. This new plan integrates modern spaceflight technologies, such as ...

As we fulfil this decades-old dream, however, let’s also not abandon our long-standing national commitment to sending humans to Mars. While short-term emphasis should obviously be placed on ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...