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

The American molecular biologist, whose great achievement is attributed to a worm, believes that human life expectancy can never be tripled as in these small organisms. Harvard professor Gary Ruvkun ...

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 ...

Elon Musk opting not to talk about his ambitious plans to colonize Mars, now that’s a first. The rocket billionaire was a no-show for a company discussion on establishing human settlements on the Red ...

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

What makes colonizing Mars a good idea? Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Is probably the best example but it mostly uses the backdrop of Mars as a plot device and is really about structuring a more ...

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 ...

The author, George Dvorsky, writing in Gizmodo, describes humankind’s ambitions to colonize the Red Planet as “lofty,” yet without an appreciation of the challenges, sometimes intractable, that we ...

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 ...