Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold. Instead, the world's richest man said SpaceX, his commercial rocket company, will turn its attention a little closer to home: the moon. The ...

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, ...

The American molecular biologist, whose great achievement is attributed to a worm, believes that human life expectancy can never be tripled as in these small organisms. Harvard professor Gary Ruvkun ...

Elon Musk has plans to colonize Mars by the next decade—and Gallup's CEO says that's a more likely reality than fixing the world's broken workplace. · Fortune · Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Either SpaceX's board members are just as delulu, or they're confident this goal is unachievable so they won't have to dole out the pay package. Reading time 2 minutes Elon Musk now has another reason ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon ...

Although Musk recently explained on X that he first wanted to build a settlement on the Moon, this does not mean that he has abandoned the goal of colonizing Mars. He has merely postponed his original ...

SpaceX plans to craft a Mars-ready Starship 3 rocket in 2025 and send five of those on a trip to the Red Planet in late 2026 with landing scheduled for 2027. This jibes with the previous timeframe of ...

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 ...