There's a lot of talk these days about when and how we might all move to Mars. But what would it actually be like to live there? Mari Foroutan details the features of Mars that are remarkably similar to those of Earth — and those that can only be found on the red planet. Lesson by Mari Foroutan, animation by Nick Hilditch.

Aldrin and the Florida Institute of Technology are pushing for a Mars settlement by 2039, the 70th anniversary of his own Apollo 11 moon landing

Six people are about to shut themselves inside a dome in Hawaii for a year, in the longest US isolation experiment yet aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars.

Six Nasa recruits have begun a year-long isolation programme in order to simulate life on Mars. The project, which started at 3pm on Friday, will be the longest of its variety ever attempted and will place the volunteers under constant scrutiny as they attempt to co-exist on a barren volcano in Hawaii.

A crew testing how a small group of humans might cope with a trip to Mars has started their 12-month mission. They will have to eat, communicate, and live exactly as they would on Mars - in a tiny dome in Hawaii.

Upcoming Matt Damon movie shows off technologies that NASA already has in the works.

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Stephen Petranek thinks humans will live on Mars within 20 years, and he states his case in a new book, "How We'll Live on Mars."

We've seen rats, yetis, faces, even elephants on Mars, but this new image captured by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is one of the most fascinating views of a rock formation on the Martian surface yet. By Ian O’Neill.

European astronaut Andreas Mogensen remotely operates a robot on Earth while flying aboard the International Space Station.

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen controlled the Earthbound Interact Centaur rover located in The Netherlands while onboard the ISS. The teleoperation technology could be crucial in building habitats in planet Mars.

Elon Musk is clearly in the 2016 race for Supervillain of the Universe, because on the "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," he suggested there were two ways to make Mars hospitable for humans and one option is to drop thermonuclear bombs on it.

The SpaceX founder tells Stephen Colbert that a thermonuclear bomb could be key to starting a Martian real estate boom.

Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today.

Elon Musk has long been a vocal proponent for the quest to send humans to Mars, regularly suggesting that humanity must become interplanetary if it is to survive. In the past, Musk has claimed that the human race has the potential to evolve to an almost god-like level, but has also argued that if we limit ourselves to just one planetary realm, we may not survive long enough to reach our potential.

Rather than being a bone-dry place, it turns out that there is water ice on the moon. It's in small amounts -- think worse than a desert -- but it is there. A key question now is whether the ice would be enough to support a lunar colony. Earlier this year, LRO found that hydrogen (an indicator of water) appears to be more abundant on pole-facing slopes in the studied region, which was the southern hemisphere. These maps will be key in indicating locations for future human outposts.

Weir talks survival, Ridley Scott, and XKCD.

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

In a major scientific finding, NASA researchers confirm briny water flows seasonally on the Red Planet.

Programmer Andy Weir had always longed to read science fiction with a greater focus on science. So, he wrote a novel of his own — which has since become a best-seller and, now, a blockbuster film.