Mars One plans to pay for most of these activities by staging a global media event around the enitre colonization project, from astronaut selection to the pioneers' life on Mars.

Ordnance Survey, which is the U.K.’s national mapping agency, has created an impressive digital map of the Mars landscape.

Mars colonies could eventually generate income from tourism, from real estate development and from inter-planetary trade. Somebody someday is going to make a lot of money on Mars. “Mars colonization ...

The dream of Martian colonization still seems distant, even for Elon Musk. While the idea of establishing a human presence on Mars continues to captivate, economic and technological obstacles make ...

Researchers estimated that as few as 22 people would be needed to sustain a colony on Mars. But there are lots of caveats, and the new study largely misses the point of colonizing the Red Planet ...

The interactive Global CTX Mosaic of Mars is the most detailed 3D map of Mars ever made. It was developed using 110,000 images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

To build a human colony on Mars, a suitable location must first be determined. Using existing data from NASA and ASU, researchers from the Netherlands have identified several locations where crops ...

Two new papers have provided a giant map outlining all the places we've discovered ancient trace of water on Mars.

Mars One plans to pay for most of these activities by staging media events connected to the colonization project.

The first people to set foot on Mars may navigate around the Red Planet using a map drawn up with the help of the masses here on Earth. The Netherlands-based nonprofit Mars One, which aims to land ...