You have just completed a seven month journey through deep space. Earth has faded into a distant blue dot, and ahead of you is a cold, dusty world no human has ever truly called home. Mars. The ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly said he plans to put humans on Mars, yet the gap between that vision and reality remains wide. The obstacles are not just about rockets or money, but about biology, psychology ...

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

The humans who move to Mars might not remain "human" for very long. Evolution is a powerful force, transcending planetary boundaries. As Rice University biologist Scott Solomon points out in his ...

Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But with NASA planning a human mission as early as the 2030s, that will soon ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and steered by scientists at Penn State lays out ...

The idea of humans living on Mars is closer to reality than it’s ever been. On Feb. 13, Elon Musk’s SpaceX ferried an international crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station, another ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The first steps humans take on Mars will represent a culmination of hopes and dreams ...