Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term habitat using local materials. Those might include water from the polar caps ...

A soil bacterium discovered in Bengaluru could play a key role in building structures on Mars, according to a new study led by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in collaboration with ...

Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very similar to classic river deltas on Earth. These are traces of rivers that ...