Missions to colonize Mars may not be as far away as you think, though current plans rely heavily on the burgeoning field of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in ...

American engineer Robert Zubrin has been convincing the world of the need to colonize Mars for more than 30 years. His ideas ...

Although Musk recently explained on X that he first wanted to build a settlement on the Moon, this does not mean that he has abandoned the goal of colonizing Mars. He has merely postponed his original ...

If you're banking on Earth being around forever, Elon Musk has some grim news: we're living on borrowed time—and the sun has the final say. In a recent interview on Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime, ...

SpaceX filed plans to take the company public in paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission, offering rare insight into the finances of the aerospace giant owned by Elon Musk, whose ...

SpaceX plans to craft a Mars-ready Starship 3 rocket in 2025 and send five of those on a trip to the Red Planet in late 2026 with landing scheduled for 2027. This jibes with the previous timeframe of ...

The author, George Dvorsky, writing in Gizmodo, describes humankind’s ambitions to colonize the Red Planet as “lofty,” yet without an appreciation of the challenges, sometimes intractable, that we ...