Getting Ready for the Mars Migration
Life on Mars, Simulated Laurie J. Schmidt View Photo GalleryThe Mars Desert Research Station, located in the Utah desert near the town of Hanksville, is a simulated Mars habitat that serves as a...
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Sydney Dust Storm Gavin Marchio/FlickrThat's what it looks like, doesn't it? In reality this is Sydney, Australia, Earth, shrouded in a severe dust storm that has covered much of the country's eastern...
View ArticleNASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ To Bring Humans to Other Worlds...
Mars Mining This Mars miner will probably never go home again. NASA If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the...
View ArticleApply Now For A One-Way Trip To Mars
Mars colony Bryan Versteeg / Mars One Want to live and die on Mars? Mars One has officially begun its worldwide search for astronauts who will fly to Mars in 2023—and never come back. The first humans...
View ArticleMore Than 200,000 People Sign Up To Die On Mars
Mars colony Bryan Versteeg / Mars One Five months after the Netherlands-based private spaceflight project Mars One announced it would begin accepting applications for a one-way trip to the red planet,...
View ArticleCuriosity Finds Water And Poison In Martian Soil
'Rocknest' in the Gale Crater, Mars Photo taken by the Curiosity rover on its 52nd Martian day, or sol, corresponding with September 28, 2012, on Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS You watched it land,...
View ArticleCheck This Out: A 3-D Printer Made From E-Waste
The circle of electronic life: useless printer scraps become a way to print scraps of other things! Resourceful 33-year-old inventor Kodjo Afate Gnikou, of the West African country Togo, has created...
View ArticleCrops Grow On Fake Moon And Mars Soil
Conceptual Rendering Of A Greenhouse On Mars. Maybe greenhouses on Mars wouldn't have to be hydroponic after all. NASA If humans ever set up permanent bases on the Moon or Mars, we'll need to be able...
View ArticleGetting Ready for the Mars Migration
The Mars Desert Research Station, located in the Utah desert near the town of Hanksville, is a simulated Mars habitat that serves as a testbed for field operations studies in…
View ArticleSince When Did We Have a Colony On Mars?
That's what it looks like, doesn't it? In reality this is Sydney, Australia, Earth, shrouded in a severe dust storm that has covered much of the country's eastern coast for…
View ArticleNASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship’ To Bring Humans to Other Worlds...
If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower. And like the first pilgrims, Martian…
View ArticleApply Now For A One-Way Trip To Mars
Want to live and die on Mars? Mars One has officially begun its worldwide search for astronauts who will fly to Mars in 2023—and never come back. The first humans on Mars…
View ArticleMore Than 200,000 People Sign Up To Die On Mars
Five months after the Netherlands-based private spaceflight project Mars One announced it would begin accepting applications for a one-way trip to the red planet, 202,586 people from more than 140...
View ArticleCuriosity Finds Water And Poison In Martian Soil
You watched it land, trundle around a bit, and attack innocent rocks. Now you can learn a lot more about the science NASA's Curiosity rover has been beaming back to Earth.
View ArticleCheck This Out: A 3-D Printer Made From E-Waste
The circle of electronic life: useless printer scraps become a way to print scraps of other things! Resourceful 33-year-old inventor Kodjo Afate Gnikou, of the West African country Togo, has created a...
View ArticleCrops Grow On Fake Moon And Mars Soil
If humans ever set up permanent bases on the Moon or Mars, we'll need to be able to grow our own food there. To find out whether that’s actually possible, a team of…
View ArticleColonizing The Moon May Be 90 Percent Cheaper Than We Thought
This Could Be Us In A Few YearsArtist concept of a moon colony via NASAOnly 12 people have walked on the moon, and we haven't been back since 1972. But a new NASA-commission study has found that we can...
View ArticleShould Mars Be Independent, Or Just A Colony Of Earth?
Artist's vision of a colony on MarsNASA Ames Research CenterIt’s a popular sci-fi plot: Earth sets up colonies on Mars; Mars colonies grow, developing their own technologies and culture; Mars colonies...
View ArticleElon Musk To Stephen Colbert: Nuclear Weapons Could Terraform Mars
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talks with Stephen ColbertScreengrab from YoutubeElon Musk has often been compared to Tony Stark. The billionaire entrepreneur is the brains behind SpaceX’s reusable rockets,...
View ArticleA Peek Inside The Orion Spacecraft That Will Fly Us To Mars
The length of humanity's planned journey to Mars will be much more than the 6 months or so that it'll take to fly there. Though NASA plans to send astronauts to the red planet sometime in the 2030s or...
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