For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

This book’s strength lies in its authorship: it is not written by a physicist enthralled by the engineering challenge of Mars ...

Colonizing Mars may be a near impossible task, but that doesn't mean humans won't try anyway. Check out what a successful ...

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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 ...

In an interview earlier this year, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, delivered a sobering assessment of Earth’s future, suggesting it may not be able to support humanity for much longer. SpaceX ...

In a similar vein - it was only a few years ago that fellow Arsians were telling me that it was impossible to build a drone that was capable of carrying living people, that the physics math didn't add ...