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

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.

Starship spacecraft enables Mars colonization with reusable design, orbital refueling, and 100+ passenger capacity for ...

For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

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 ...

NASA hasn't landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet's surface than they did when the movie was released. When you purchase through links on ...

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, ...