Alyssa Rosenberg says there's no reason so many of our science fiction movies should be set on Mars. It's just a blank slate for an alien planet - any alien planet - and too few of the films and ...

Vast, dusty canyons, giant-brained Martians and lots and lots of red dirt. These are some of the common perceptions of what it may look like on our neighboring planet Mars, according to traditional ...

Deep in the deserts of southeast Utah, Mars enthusiasts have conducted simulated voyages to the Red Planet since 2002. It's how the inspires and prepares humans for interplanetary travel. , a winning ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson dreams of a world with warp drives. Cosmologist Max Tegmark's research was inspired by the sci-fi novel "Permutation City." Some space travel experts often quote the Star Trek ...

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University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Has a book been found on Mars? One enthusiast trawling the NASA photo archives thought so. Of course, it turns ...

Kim Stanley Robinson Mars was empty before we came. That’s not to say that nothing had ever happened. The planet had accreted, melted, rolled and cooled, leaving a surface scarred by enormous ...

As Perseverance inspires the entire world about the thrill of visiting our nearest solar neighbor, Mars, it's easy to start fantasizing about what it will be like when human beings regularly live on ...