Astrophysicist and science writer Adam Becker discusses why the dream of life on Mars may be out of reach, maybe for centuries to come.

The mission to colonize Mars has captured the imagination of scientists and enthusiasts alike. With NASA and SpaceX leading the charge, the once distant dream of establishing a human settlement on the ...

SpaceX’s Starship is a completely reusable launch vehicle with massive lifting capability. It consists of two stages: the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft. Both of these stages are ...

Metal-rich asteroids could one day become hardware stores for Mars, supplying the materials needed to build and repair a ...

When it comes to a timeline for putting humans on Mars, SpaceX SPCX CEO Elon Musk and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman have ...

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 ...

Somewhere right now, in a conference room full of planetary scientists, an argument is quietly raging. On one side: the Mars ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pristine white rocket stirs up the dusty terracotta surface of Mars, coming in for a smooth landing. A hatch opens, and two rovers make their way across the rugged orange-red terrain. There are no ...

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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, ...