David Baron's "The Martians" plumbs the depths of America's fascination with Mars at the turn of the 20th century.

Mars, our reddish-hued neighbor in the solar system, oh how you have captivated us earthlings, fueling an obsession at the ...

In his deeply researched book ‘The Martians,’ David Baron examines true alien believers and scientists, including Nikola ...

It was based on the work of Percival Lowell, a professor who was convinced Mars contained a series of irrigation canals built ...

A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century.

Mars Society founder Dr. Robert Zubrin discusses his latest book, "The New World on Mars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To say ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and ...

On Episode 177 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Michael Tice to talk about a possible ...

In August 1998, 700 people came to Boulder, Colorado, to attend the founding convention of the Mars Society. The group’s co-founder and president, Robert Zubrin, extolled the virtues of sending humans ...

It is one thing to toy with an ambitious idea and quite another to push forward an idea in the belief that the time has come to put it into practice. The concept of space colonies has fascinated ...

Mars, for all its flaws — and there are many, including radiation, dust storms, and unbreathable air — is the only planet in our solar system that’s a candidate for settlement. Its day and night cycle ...

In the early 20th century it was widely thought that there was intelligent life on Mars, and that we actually knew something about the inhabitants. Fringe theorists and yellow journalists spread this ...