Mars Colonization News Today

Space agencies, huge corporations, and media-savvy billionaires — ahem, Elon Musk — have all promised that building colonies on the surface of Mars “will fix just about everything" and give humanity a chance "to try out something completely new and leave all the bad stuff behind," Kelly and Zach Weinersmith write in their new book, “A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?” (Penguin Press).

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An agreeable personality type was found to be the best fitted to survive on the Red Planet.

The researchers found that just under two dozen people are needed to create a colony on Mars, but one personality type will most likely not survive.

Biosphere 2 was an ambitious 1990s experiment to simulate a self-sustaining Mars colony in the Arizona desert. A new documentary details the project.

Some chose to take a swipe at the billionaire as one said, “Don't fire everybody who knows how to do it,” referring to his decision of firing nearly half of Twitter staff.

Venus has clouds filled with sulfuric acid, and it has a crushing atmosphere making it inhabitable

The Perseverance Rover captured a dramatic scene of Mars' moon crossing the Sun. NASA's Perseverance rover for Mars has filmed a stunning footage of a tiny Martian Moon bypassing the face of the sun, an observation that will aid scientists to better understand the moon's orbit and its gravitational pull that shapes the planet's crust and mantle.

"It's very important to emphasize that Mars, especially in the beginning, will not be luxurious," Elon Musk said in an interview.

Mars colonization can actually use bacteria to create oxygen on the Red Planet. Here's what a new space study revealed.