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, ...

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 ...

The commercial space industry has boomed in recent years, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin leading the pack. Their respective founders, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, essentially share the same ...

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The New York Times reported Elon Musk had volunteered his sperm as part of SpaceX's plans to build a city on the red planet.

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 ...

Elon Musk revealed to Fox News’ Jesse Watters that his desire to colonize Mars stems from wanting to get the entire human race a “life insurance” policy. “Mars is life insurance for life collectively, ...

Before he got into talking about the Interplanetary Transport System, Musk explained why Mars would be the ideal target for human colonization efforts instead of the moon, for instance. While Mars is ...

In a similar vein - it was only a few years ago that fellow Arsians were telling me that it was impossible to build a drone that was capable of carrying living people, that the physics math didn't add ...

With the help of his space company’s gigantic Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur wants to ensure the “long-term survival of consciousness” by ferrying a million settlers to permanent ...

There's an asymmetry there though—it's cheaper coming down than going up. If you're after raw materials, then in principle you don't need to put that much mass in space to bring a lot of mass back to ...

Surviving Mars: Relaunched, a remastered and expanded version of the original colony management game, will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft ...