Elon Musk is the rare person with a talent for executing practical solutions to seemingly impractical ideas like high-end electric vehicles (Tesla Motors) and commercial space flight (SpaceX), so when ...

How would colonizing Mars alter us physically and mentally? Would permanent residence on the red planet make us somehow less ...

In November, Stephen Hawking warned that humans needed to colonize another planet within 1,000 years. Now, six months later, he’s saying we have to do it within 100 years in order to avoid extinction.

In "The Martian," the film based on Andy Weir's bestselling novel that hit theaters Friday, Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars. From the extreme cold to the deadly radiation, there are ...

Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA’s words, “the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.” Or, to put it ...

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building a city on the moon.