Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in ...

Anyone who steps onto Mars will be crossing a one-way threshold in more ways than one. The physics of getting there and back, ...

In a recent announcement, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has set a new target for human colonization of Mars by 2030. However, despite the ambitious timeline, experts in the field have expressed ...

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 ...

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, ...

A concept image of an astronaut on Mars. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to have a city of a million people on Mars by 2050. That may sound astronomically ambitious considering humans have never set foot ...

Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to the colonization of Mars. In an address at SpaceX's Starbase facility at Boca Chica, Texas, he gave an update on how the advances in the company's ...

He may or may not be buying MSNBC, but Elon Musk isn’t taking any put-downs from Neil de Grasse Tyson on his Mars ambitions. The entrepreneur responded today to deGrasse Tyson’s barbed comments on ...

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, ...

For many years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been hellbent on sending humans to the surface of Mars. But a pesky foe could derail all that. As detailed in a recent study published in the journal GeoHealth ...

According to Musk, once SpaceX starts launching its Interplanetary Transport System (ITS) rockets to Mars, it will take “40 to 100 years to achieve a fully self-sustaining civilisation” on the Red ...

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