Somewhere right now, in a conference room full of planetary scientists, an argument is quietly raging. On one side: the Mars ...

The author, George Dvorsky, writing in Gizmodo, describes humankind’s ambitions to colonize the Red Planet as “lofty,” yet without an appreciation of the challenges, sometimes intractable, that we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fresh on the heels of the loss of his latest Starship vehicle, Musk gave a talk shared on X about making life multi-planetary and ...

Elon Musk takes a bow at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in May 2020 after the launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission, which carried two astronauts to the International Space Station, about 250 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in ...

The real number of settlers needed to survive on Mars might surprise you—turns out space colonization math is way trickier than sci-fi makes it look.

SpaceX’s Starship is a completely reusable launch vehicle with massive lifting capability. It consists of two stages: the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft. Both of these stages are ...

Buzz Aldrin has his own plan for colonizing Mars -- and while it doesn't involve the use of nuclear weapons, he's got his own ideas for stable, long-term habitation. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. In fact, the billionaire says it could happen within four years. He also says we could be living in a self-sustaining city on the red planet in the next 20 years.