One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary chemistry and potentially life. A new study overturns old theories by showing that these elements ...

NASA has found a rock on Mars that it has dubbed Skull Hill. The rock is known as a "float rock," and NASA has no idea where ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Learn about Mars' defunct magnetic field, which may have sustained life on the planet and covered only its southern ...

The new study, however, claims that the red found in Mars's environment was similar to ferrihydrite. The mineral is a form of ...

Learn more about the Curiosity’s carbonate discovery on Mars, and what it tells of about Mars’ past and Earth’s future.

Whether the material for constructing the factories could be shipped to Mars or made from Martian elements is being debated. Scientists have thought about attaching nuclear, thermal-rocket engines ...