In "Mars on Earth," writer Mark Johanson spends three months in the Atacama Desert in Chile to learn more about its past, present, and future.

This isn't the first proposed Mars mission on the books. NASA has it as a long-term goal to send astronauts to the red planet. And space entrepreneur Dennis Tito recently announced plans to send a ...

VINELAND -- A handwritten copy of Charles K. Landis' science fiction manuscript entitled "A Trip to Mars" was discovered last year by the Vineland Historical & Antiquarian Society's ...

Mars One Chief Medical Officer Norbert Kraft -- a doctor whose specialization is in examining and developing countermeasures to the isolating effects of space travel and life in orbit -- will edit ...

In Dan Simmons’ much-praised recasting of the Iliad in his 2003 book Ilium, for instance, Mars is no more than ... Carmen Dula and her family have been chosen by lottery for a six-year trip to Mars.

Mary Roach's book about how humans handle outer space, "Packing for Mars," tells you pretty much everything you always wanted to know about sex, poop and vomit on the final frontier. But Roach ...

A manned mission to Mars would be greatest adventure in the history of the human race. And one man knows how to make it a reality. In fact, he just wrote the book on it -- literally.

Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Summer Preview Advertisement Supported by nonfiction In Matthew Shindell’s “For the Love of Mars,” perceptions of the planet ...

Tayari Jones, 48, is the author of four books and is a member of the English faculty at Emory University. Her most recent novel is “An American Marriage,” now out in paperback (Algonquin). She ...