ORIGAMI-style space homes that spring off the ground on Mars could house future visitors to the red planet. These hi-tech habitats would pop up with “one pull of a string” – with no ...

Why water ice is suddenly central to Mars base design For decades, mission concepts treated water as something to ship or mine in small quantities, but the emerging architecture for Mars assumes it ...

Mars' missing atmosphere may be locked up in the planet's clay-rich surface, a new study by MIT geologists has suggested. According to the researchers, ancient water trickling through Mars' rocks ...