Before the first human boot sinks into Martian dust, an army of machines will have already been at work for years, testing ...

The New York Times reported Elon Musk had volunteered his sperm as part of SpaceX's plans to build a city on the red planet.

For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

Space visionaries, scientists, entrepreneurs and students from around the world will gather in Florida next week for this year's International Space Development Conference. The conference — ISDC 2025 ...

There are substantial technical, political, and financial obstacles to starting the colonization of Mars within the next few decades. SpaceX is farther along than most toward this ambitious goal. Are ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Rovers on Mars have made exciting finds and ...

CEO Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX plans to go public, with reports suggesting an IPO in mid-to-late 2026. Experts believe the move could help fund the company's ambitious goal of establishing a human ...

The planet Mars has played an outsize role in human imagination since we first looked up at the stars. The fact that this red dot and other planets wandered the sky made them distinct from the stars ...

(RNS) — It makes more sense to spend money saving the Earth from climate change, ecological destruction and international conflicts than it does going to Mars. (RNS) — The planet Mars has played an ...