How difficult will it be for future astronauts on Mars to establish a sustainable settlement? This is what a recent preprint submitted to Elsevier hopes to address as Dr. Florian Neukart, who is an ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

Robots are already rewriting the script for Mars. While human crews remain grounded by medical, political, and financial ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

There are substantial technical, political, and financial obstacles to starting the colonization of Mars within the next few decades. SpaceX is farther along than most toward this ambitious goal.

SpaceX is about to launch the ninth test of its huge Starship system, which the company believes will drive down costs to reach space and help make human life multiplanetary.

America must create the law that will govern the colonization of space. In his inaugural address, President Donald J. Trump said: The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, ...

In an interview earlier this year, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, delivered a sobering assessment of Earth’s future, suggesting it may not be able to support humanity for much longer. SpaceX ...

"I think it can be done in 30 years." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A Red Planet settlement isn't a mere pipe dream, according ...

With the help of his space company’s gigantic Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur wants to ensure the “long-term survival of consciousness” by ferrying a million settlers to permanent ...