Elon Musk just changed course: A Moon city comes before Mars. Here's why SpaceX is prioritizing lunar settlement over the Red Planet—for now.

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 ...

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, ...

The overriding priority is securing the future of civilization, and the Moon is faster,' Elon Musk confirms SpaceX's new ...

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.

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning Mars into a second Earth and building floating cities above Venus. The ...

In a recent announcement, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has set a new target for human colonization of Mars by 2030. However, despite the ambitious timeline, experts in the field have expressed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He may or may not be buying MSNBC, but Elon Musk isn’t taking any put-downs from Neil de Grasse Tyson on his Mars ambitions. The ...

SpaceX's Mars Colonization Program relies on the Starship launch vehicle. Musk claims they will be instrumental in achieving his Mars goals. He has made several aspirational statements about the ...

SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritize establishing a settlement ...

How difficult will it be for future astronauts on Mars to establish a sustainable settlement? This is what a recent preprint submitted to Elsevier hopes to address as Dr. Florian Neukart, who is an ...

He may or may not be buying MSNBC, but Elon Musk isn’t taking any put-downs from Neil de Grasse Tyson on his Mars ambitions. The entrepreneur responded today to deGrasse Tyson’s barbed comments on ...