NASA JPL and Makerbot have announced the winners of their Thingiverse Mars Base challenge to design and 3D print a human habitat for the Red Planet. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor ...

The brief provided is to design, with all these considerations in mind, "a utilitarian Mars base that can withstand the elements and maybe even make you feel at home, despite being 140 million ...

Now, the top three contenders for the Mars Base Challenge have been selected. While the designs are obviously not made by engineers skilled in Mars’ local conditions, the creativity they contain ...

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was pretty dire, and Treehugger writer Sami Grover tells us we can't rely on New Zealand, but there's always Mars!

Putting a human base on Mars has long been an aspiration for us Earthlings. For centuries people have been fascinated by the dusty and desolate Red Planet, ever since its discovery by Galileo in ...

The designs for the lunar and Martian habitats both feature inflatable pods that would be launched to the moon or Mars ahead of time. These will act as the base of the settlement, and then robot ...

NASA rendering shows a future Mars base with a greenhouse attached ... organized by the National Institute of Aerospace in collaboration with NASA. Their goal: to design a greenhouse to support four ...

NASA’s insight lander has been on Mars for years now, tracking any and all seismic activity on the red planet. The data it has provided has helped scientists figure out what’s going on under ...

Four people will soon experience a one-week stay in what could be the most realistic Martian base on Earth. The Space Analog for the Moon and Mars (SAM) base has been built on the grounds of ...

Welcome to Mars Base, humanity's foothold on the Red Planet! Join the expedition as an interstellar botanist and make history: turn barren soil into fertile farmland, grow food for colonists ...