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

Starship spacecraft enables Mars colonization with reusable design, orbital refueling, and 100+ passenger capacity for ...

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, ...

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

SpaceX’s development of Starship marks a pivotal step in realizing Elon Musk’s long-standing ambition to colonize Mars. Exploring the motivations behind this audacious project and the technological ...

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 ...

For many years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been hellbent on sending humans to the surface of Mars. But a pesky foe could derail all that. As detailed in a recent study published in the journal GeoHealth ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has authored a second academic study, published this month in the journal New Space. The paper describes SpaceX's current plans for starting a Mars colony with a fully ...

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