The Red Planet is the fourth from the sun and is the seventh largest planet. As the planet is dry, rocky and bitter cold, a ...

The curious minds at What If explore the immense challenges and discoveries of living on Mars for 100 years. Mexican ...

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that they could potentially live on the Red Planet.

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...

Failure in that could result in a disastrous loss of crops. Living on Mars will be no easy feat. Building viable living quarters would require an inflatable habitat that can be covered with a ...

This is what living on Mars could do to the human body As global warming continues and space technology improves, there is more and more talk about the growing possibility of a sci-fi future in ...

Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and ...

Sadly, this doesn't mean scientists have found – or will ever find – lichen already living on Mars. But it means that an alien colony of lichen could potentially survive Mars' harsh conditions.

Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the Red ...

"The last four months have been a whirlwind for the science team, and we still feel that Witch Hazel Hill has more to tell us ...

Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists think it once resembled our very own Earth — the Blue Planet, if you will. More specifically, experts say Mars once ...