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

Astrophysicist and science writer Adam Becker discusses why the dream of life on Mars may be out of reach, maybe for centuries to come.

SpaceX’s Starship is a completely reusable launch vehicle with massive lifting capability. It consists of two stages: the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft. Both of these stages are ...

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

A crew on the Moon is roughly three days from Earth and can abort home. A crew bound for Mars is seven to nine months out, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The SpaceX board will grant Elon Musk 1 billion SpaceX shares if he can get a colony of 1 million humans on Mars.Kevin Carter/Getty Images An astrophysicist is giving Elon Musk's dream of life on Mars ...