Humans colonizing Mars might be possible — but it’s brutally difficult. The real breakthrough could be robots: rovers, ...

Elon Musk's dream of colonizing Mars is taking a backseat as SpaceX shifts its focus to building a self-sustaining city on the moon within a decade.

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.

In this video, we explore the feasibility of colonizing Mars with insights from Bill Nye and The Planetary Society. The ...

By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts ...

Elon Musk recently announced that SpaceX is putting Mars colonization on the back burner. Instead, he plans to build a cosmic ...

When Philip K. Dick imagined artificial beings in his book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," the question was whether machines could think and feel like humans. Today, NASA is posing a related, ...

Musk will discuss progress and next steps toward building a human presence on the Red Planet ahead of Starship’s ninth test flight today. Reading time 3 minutes Update: May 27, 1:21 p.m ET: SpaceX has ...

Select middle school students will have an opportunity this summer to explore traveling to and colonizing planets during the Windy Ridge Foundation Astro Camp Sunday-Saturday, July 12-18, on the ...

Musk’s announcement comes as NASA plans to send four astronauts around the Moon on a crewed flyby in the Artemis II mission ...