Mars planners are increasingly treating ice not just as a resource to drink or split for rocket fuel, but as a structural material that could shape the first real neighborhoods on another world.

For decades, crewed missions to Mars have been framed as a distant dream, but planetary scientists are now converging on a ...

Robert Zubrin, Presiden of the Mars Society, has developed an updated Mars plan that builds on his original Mars Direct proposal. This new plan integrates modern spaceflight technologies, such as ...