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We Might Be Martians: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes

Planning on looking at your family tree? If you go back far enough in time, you might discover relatives who used to live on Mars. While that notion may seem a little far-fetched at first, don't laugh. According to MIT News, many scientists consider that life on Earth may be descended from organisms that arrived here from...

New Images Show Mars' North Pole Shifting in the Wind

New images of Mars show that ice and gusts of wind are constantly reshaping a huge region of the red planet. The images, taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, document sand dunes on the north pole of the planet over four years, revealing that they are...

Sex in Space: The Final Frontier

Well, it had to come up at some point. With all the recent talk about a possible manned mission to Mars, one topic that hasn't had a lot of discussion is this: If we send colonists to the red planet, will sex in space be a problem? And just how much fun is it to experience zero-gravity nookie? Presumably, if we're going...

Why Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars?

If NASA put out the word that it was looking for volunteers to suit up for the first manned mission to Mars, the line outside Cape Canaveral might stretch from there to the moon. But what if they said it was a nine-month trip on a cramped spaceship and there was a possibility you wouldn't be coming home? Despite the...

NASA Planning One-Way Manned Mission to Mars

(Oct. 27) -- We are going to Mars and not coming back. At a recent event in San Francisco, NASA Ames Research Center Director Pete Worden introduced the Hundred Year Starship initiative, a project to embark on a one-way mission from Earth to Mars by 2030 and permanently settle the red planet. "The human space program is...