Elon Musk says he wants to send one million people to Mars by the year 2050. The SpaceX CEO has become famous for making huge promises about colonizing the red planet. But how many of those ideas are ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is delaying Mars plans to focus on an uncrewed Moon landing by March 2027 “We're gonna go to the Moon, we're gonna have a base on the Moon, we're gonna send people to Mars and make ...

Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped out an extended message in ...

LIGHTHAVEN, ONE kilometre down Telegraph Avenue from the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is a rambling conference facility which dedicates itself to “hosting events and programmes ...

— -- Getting a six-wheeled car-size rover safely onto the surface of the red planet? Daunting, sure. But NASA did it with Curiosity. Sending humans on a mission to Mars? That requires overcoming ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire inventor and CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, announced Tuesday his ambitious plan for turning humans into the “first multiplanetary species” by 2070: by building a sprawling ...

Scientists say the dream of settling the Red Planet comes with major health risks that we are only beginning to understand.

Biological limits A sustainable Mars colony will need to include raising children there, but childbirth would be very risky on Mars. (Courtesy: iStock/Denis Art) “It’s hard to say when exactly sending ...