The squat, crab-like twin Rover explorers took off for Mars in January 2003. By then Dr Al Awar, who was the first national woman Chemistry teacher in the UAE, had authored several papers in the ...

For Lauren Reeves, a 30-year-old from New York, the most difficult part about living on Mars would be internet connection. "Like," Reeves mused in her application video for a one-way trip to Mars ...

Kara Gaiser, a mechanical engineering student at Berkeley from Portland, is researching life support systems on Mars and other locations beyond Earth.

Oil tycoon Ed Bass spent about $250 million to build and operate that facility as a proof-of-concept for a permanent, self-sustaining habitat on Mars. Four men and four women sealed themselves ...