People often talked about Mars colonization in extremes: either the first tiny outpost or a fully terraformed world with millions already living there. This video focused on the far more difficult ...

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.

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, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The idea of an AI-powered app to simulate Mars colonization turns the overwhelming prospect of colonizing the Red Planet into a fun game ...

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 ...

In 2035, if you were going to colonize Mars, what single book would you take for comfort and peace? A fascinating question ...

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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 ...

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 ...