Being trapped inside a small Mars habitat for months if not years at a time won’t be the faint of heart. It’s a journey that will require cool minds, quick wits, and plenty of technological know-how.

Trapped in a small but high-tech habitat, stranded on a cold desert world completely alien to our own, what would you do to decompress after a laborious day of scientific fact-finding and on-foot ...

(CNN) – NASA researchers are about to spend a year on Mars – a simulated Mars, that is. The project is called Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA. It will isolate four people ...

NASA has officially kicked off one of its biggest and most intriguing experiments to date. The experiment will see four non-astronauts locked in NASA's fake Mars base, which will help simulate what it ...

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 ...

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.

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a ...