Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go about it and how close is close enough for our purposes? How would we let life ...

After years of resisting the idea, Elon Musk is expected to take SpaceX public in 2026. The IPO could be the largest IPO in U.S. history, and has the potential to raise $30 billion. SpaceX is already ...

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, ...

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Everyone’s talking about colonizing Mars… but what if the real plan B is even more extreme? Today we challenge everything you ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.