A poster for the Mars One project's Million Martian Meeting to discuss plans for a Mars colony mission in 2023. The meeting was held in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 3. Mars One: Million Martian Meeting ...

Buy Now (Image credit: Space.com Store) Mars One estimates it will need about $6 billion to send the first four inhabitants to start the Red Planet colony, with $4 billion needed to launch each ...

The European Space Agency has ambitious goals for space exploration in the near future. In a new report published during the ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for ...

Mars Map Shows Where Astronauts Should Build Space Colony. Published Apr 05, 2018 at 12:31 PM EDT. Researchers have made a map of the best locations to start a colony on Mars, ...

These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars,” Elon Musk wrote in a post on X. "If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years.

Mars colony could survive with 22 people — just don’t bring these losers By . ... New research highlights the type of personality needed to last on Mars, should the planet become a space outpost.

The chief purpose of Uwingu is to raise funds for space exploration, research and education. The price for registering a suggested Mars name starts at $5 and goes up as crater size increases.

If Elon Musk really wants to build a colony on Mars, astronauts may have to literally give their blood, sweat, and tears -- and even urine -- to make it happen.

Only about two dozen astronauts are enough to build and maintain a Mars colony, according to a new study, which suggests this low number – compared to previous estimates of about 100 people ...

Sending people to Mars won’t be easy. There are the obvious challenges like getting people and supplies into space and landing them safely on another planet. And once they arrive, they’ll need ...