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 ...

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!

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 ...

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 ...

It will isolate four people inside a mock-Mars base in Texas for 378 days, roughly the same time a manned mission to Mars would spend on the surface. The participants will have a schedule of ...

West Miami Middle School student Fernando Suarez presents his team's Mars base. A group of Miami-Dade middle-schoolers established a base on our sister planet Mars — at least virtually.