Mars

CS Monitor: Mars colony project launches plans for 2018 test mission (+video) Mars One, a nonprofit, privately funded group aiming to land human settlers on the red planet in 2025, has contracted with two aerospace companies to study ideas for a preliminary test mission.

CS Monitor: Mars was not only habitable, it was downright Earth-like, Curiosity finds - Mars' Gale Crater had a long, thin lake that could have supported microbial life in a setting 'really similar to an Earth environment,' according to data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.