A lunar base might be feasible; a Mars city is another matter. However, the pressing task is terrestrial: keep Earth ...

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 ...

In February, Elon Musk outlined a shift toward a lunar manufacturing outpost producing AI satellites, presented as a response ...

Image Credit: jurvetson - CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia. SpaceX founder Elon Musk just said the company is stepping back from its previously touted plan to send humans to Mars in the near term in favor of ...

Human sperm becomes disoriented in space, raising serious questions about the feasibility of conceiving children on the Moon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember in Despicable Me, when Gru wanted to steal the moon? Well, that’s pretty much where we’re at now with Elon Musk. After ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday that his company had “shifted focus” from taking humans to Mars to building a “self-growing city on the Moon,” something he said could be achievable in less than ...

Since at least the early 2000s, Elon Musk has been obsessed with the idea of colonizing Mars, a hostile and arid planet tens of millions of miles away. In its earliest iteration, his plan was to ...

Elon Musk announced his company SpaceX is shifting its focus from colonizing Mars to building a city on the moon. Musk stated that establishing a human presence on the moon is more feasible in the ...

It could take more than two decades - and a lot of cash - to settle the Red Planet. The moon is a somewhat easier target. SpaceX plans to use its Starship megarocket to lead efforts settling the moon ...