Missions to colonize Mars may not be as far away as you think, though current plans rely heavily on the burgeoning field of ...

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 ...

Elon Musk has plans to colonize Mars by the next decade—and Gallup's CEO says that's a more likely reality than fixing the world's broken workplace. · Fortune · Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

If you're banking on Earth being around forever, Elon Musk has some grim news: we're living on borrowed time—and the sun has the final say. In a recent interview on Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime, ...

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 ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon ...

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, ...

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 ...

SpaceX plans to craft a Mars-ready Starship 3 rocket in 2025 and send five of those on a trip to the Red Planet in late 2026 with landing scheduled for 2027. This jibes with the previous timeframe of ...

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 ...

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 ...