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, ...

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 ...

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. Are ...

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

Elon Musk’s ambitious vision for the future of space exploration involves Tesla’s Optimus robots pioneering the construction of a Martian colony by 2026. This bold plan leverages the advanced AI ...

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 ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Rovers on Mars have made exciting finds and ...

A NASA spokesman denied on Thursday that the space agency is running a child slave colony on Mars, populating it with kidnapped children. Radio host Alex Jones, known for presenting conspiracy ...

This book’s strength lies in its authorship: it is not written by a physicist enthralled by the engineering challenge of Mars ...