If you have 8 years to spare and would like to be one of the four lucky guinea pigs Dutch non-profit Mars One sends to the Red Planet, it’s time to hop in line. Mars One announced last year that it ...

When Philip K. Dick imagined artificial beings in his book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," the question was whether machines could think and feel like humans. Today, NASA is posing a related, ...

Humanity’s path to Mars will not be paved by rockets alone. The harsh cold, thin air, and toxic soil of the Red Planet demand a kind of resilience that metal and machinery cannot provide on their own, ...

Humans colonizing Mars might be possible — but it’s brutally difficult. The real breakthrough could be robots: rovers, walking machines, and helicopter drones that can explore places humans can’t ...