Elon Musk recently announced that SpaceX is putting Mars colonization on the back burner. Instead, he plans to build a cosmic ...

When Elon Musk founded SpaceX (which is currently one of the most valuable private companies in the world), he did so with the dream of setting up colonies on Mars. A lofty goal, mostly because we've ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold. But the moon, where even NASA aims to return astronauts as early as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold. But the moon, where even NASA aims to return astronauts as early as ...

NASA and private companies are competing to send humans to the Moon by planning future Mars missions. NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin pursue their ambitious programmes to create a lunar base ...

Its name will be "Red Dragon." And if the latest partnership between SpaceX and NASA works out, the privately funded craft will land on Mars to collect scientific data — possibly within the next two ...

"Mars & Beyond" is how SpaceX describes its mission statement. Indeed, the company's CEO, Elon Musk, has made no secret of his ambition to establish a city on Mars. In fact, in a world where NASA's ...

SpaceX and NASA wrapped up 16 months of behind-the-scenes negotiations Tuesday with an unfunded Space Act agreement to cooperate on sending an unmanned Dragon crew capsule to the surface of Mars as ...

NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in August 2005 and the following year, on March 10, it entered the orbit of the red planet where it continues to operate today. Data returned to Earth by ...