Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold. Instead, the world's richest man said SpaceX, his commercial rocket company, will turn its attention a little closer to home: the moon. The ...

For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling everything from Earth and the difficulty of building safe shelters on a hostile ...

Shortly before SpaceX’s initial public offering catapulted Elon Musk’s personal wealth over $1 trillion, the company’s founder declared that the goal of his rocket company is to “take the fiction out ...

Models help scientists understand everything from the particles that make up the universe to massive superstructures of galaxies at the beginning of time. But sometimes they model more mundane, though ...

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 ...

(Newser) - Looks like Mars and the moon contain huge lava tubes that offer protection from solar radiation and meteors—which makes them possible homes for future explorers, LiveScience reports. A new ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get started on planets throughout a solar system. The discovery of ...

Elon Musk and SpaceX are preparing their imminent space journey to Mars in an attempt to colonize it, pushing people to ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...

Last weekend, Elon Musk provided an update on SpaceX’s plans to send humanity to Mars. His goal was succinctly summarized by the title of his presentation: “Making life multiplanetary.” The ...