Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

Scientists used simulations to show how astronaut personalities affect stress, teamwork, and success in Mars missions.

Simulation results highlight how team composition shapes stress, health, performance, and cohesion in long-duration space ...

Mars is a frozen shadow of its former self. Its riverbeds are dry, its air is thin and chock-full of carbon dioxide, and its soil is soaked with salts hostile to life. Yet beneath the red dust lies ...

NASA's CHAPEA mission will see four volunteers living in a simulated Mars base, and leading them is an Air Force pilot, who ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

Air Force Maj. Ross Elder will lead a 378-day NASA mission with three other crew members in a structure that simulates a base ...

Those interested in the mission must be non-smokers and speak English, among other qualifications, NASA said Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an ...

Watch out, tardigrades: The first life form to colonize Mars may be a hardy desert moss, according to a recent study. A team of researchers recently put a desert moss called Syntrichia caninervis ...

An Air Force test pilot, a Space Force officer, and a Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot were named to the crew of a NASA Mars simulation mission.

While humans living on Mars is the stuff of sci-fi movies for now, scientists may have figured out a major step toward colonization, by in effect creating global warming on the planet. It could be ...