Challenges to Mars construction Of course, there are other factors besides material availability at work in such a construction project. Here on Earth, we have centuries of experience building in ...

There’s no technical reason why we couldn’t do the same with humans. Second, Mars is abundant in the raw materials required for humans to “live off the land”, in other words, achieve a ...

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire ...

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 ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, researchers think they have a good explanation for a warmer, ...

Is there really life on Mars? Was there once cellular material on the red planet? Scientists have been studying these questions for a long time, and now they have some new information that may ...