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 ...

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Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered the most promising landing site for humans, aiming to prepare for the ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...

President Donald Trump’s single reference to space in his second inaugural address Monday pointed in an unexpected direction. In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space ...

A colony on Mars will fail as a back-up plan after a catastrophe on Earth. It is hard to see how it could repopulate Earth with a significant number of people. Returning to Earth from space is a ...

Supporters of planetary colonization argue that becoming a multi-planet species could safeguard us from potentially ...