Mars

Farah Alibay’s fixation with knowing how things work led to a career pondering life’s biggest questions

Image of the Week: Beijing unabashedly depicts space exploration as a patriotic and military-led endeavour

The cost of creating even a tiny extraterrestrial colony is far greater than the cost of fixing Earth’s problems

Matt Damon on working with Ridley Scott and NASA, and what he’d eat if he was lost in space

‘We now have an imperative to send astrobiologists to Mars,’ says John Grunsfeld administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate

Some scientists think the answer might lie underneath the Martian surface

Watch highlights from the NASA press conference, held at 11:30 a.m. ET

One astronaut believes it’s a ‘fraud’. To another, it’s ‘unethical.’ Does Mars One make sense?

If we’re going to send humans to Mars, we’re going to need a new spacesuit. And that requires decades of inventing and testing—plus danger and hope.

Newsmaker, Feb. 17: Four Ontarians, two British Columbians are among the Mars mission’s top 100 contenders

Newsmaker, Dec. 9: Canada’s most famous astronaut calls for a permanent lunar base, rather than a move to Mars

Welcome to ‘Day One of the Mars era’