Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that no matter how financially successful SpaceX may be, the company will have failed in his eyes if the primary objective – the colonization of Mars – ...

Our biggest obstacle might not be technological,” author Scott E. Solomon said of future life on Mars. “It might be us.” ...

Musk’s vision for cities on the moon and Mars is an attempt to make science fiction a reality.

Elon Musk's dream of colonizing Mars is taking a backseat as SpaceX shifts its focus to building a self-sustaining city on the moon within a decade.

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese program, a commercially driven SpaceX campaign, and a methodical NASA ...

Rice University biology professor Scott Solomon ponders those questions in his new book, "Becoming Martian: How Living in ...

Long before SpaceX, long before Apollo, NASA had already imagined something far more permanent — a fully self sustaining colony on Mars. The plan called for a fleet of massive spacecraft and a ...

We’re going back to the moon. Well, at least that’s the hope.

SpaceX has pursued its founder’s dream of reaching Mars for decades, but now that Elon Musk has shifted the company’s focus to the Moon, another aerospace firm appears prepared to take the lead in the ...