For decades, the case for sending people to Mars has rested on a mix of romance, rivalry, and raw curiosity. Now a cluster of ...

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than ...

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...

1. Why explore Mars? -- 2. Planning, space campaigns and missions -- 3. Getting there and back -- 4. Critical Mars mission elements -- 5. In situ utilization of indigenous resources -- 6. Mars mission ...

Damian Bailey is supported by grants from the European Space Agency, SpaceX and Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship. He is Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Physiology and outgoing Chair of the ...