and intense radiation will bombard their bodies the moment they descend on the planet's surface. To survive in this hostile landscape, settlers will need man-made habitats that can support human ...

Click through the gallery and take a tour through Earth's alien-looking landscapes. Space travel sounds unbelievably cool, but most of us won’t ever have the opportunity to check out alien planets.

which has provided evidence that chunks of Theia might still exist in the boundary between the surface of our planet, the mantle, and the core. Of course, getting to these possible slabs of alien ...

could harbor microbial life deep beneath the planet's surface. The findings are based on analyses of Mars mission data. The study identifies methanogens, a type of microbe known for producing ...

windblown landscape that could—just maybe—harbor microbial life beneath its rusty surface even today. With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and ...