Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea increasingly plausible.

Building a city on Mars using ice might sound far-fetched, but new research published at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting has brought this idea a step closer to reality. Scientists ...

Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an engineering problem with a biological answer. Instead of shipping steel and concrete ...

Since humanity’s first steps on the Moon, the aspiration to extend human civilization beyond Earth has been a central objective of international space agencies, targeting long-term extraterrestrial ...

GREENSBORO, NC (2/26/2026) – Luna Labs has selected UNC Greensboro (UNCG) chemistry professor Nicholas Oberlies to lead a NASA-funded project exploring whether fungi can be grown into building ...

In the paper, researchers explored how construction on Mars could one day rely entirely on local resources. Their solution involves turning Martian regolith, the planet’s loose, rocky soil, into ...

Bjarke Ingels has joined the building-on-Mars party. BIG's prototype Martian city, dubbed Mars Science City, is designed to be an environment dedicated to the knowledge, education, and exhibition of ...