As a former NASA mission planner, I would signal a "no-go" for human colonization of the moon and Mars. The human body's ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A new life awaits you in the off-world ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

How difficult will it be for future astronauts on Mars to establish a sustainable settlement? This is what a recent preprint submitted to Elsevier hopes to address as Dr. Florian Neukart, who is an ...

Arthur Clarke, screenwriter for the blockbuster film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has been resurrected as an advanced OpenAI chatbot to help map out the transformation of Mars into a new Eden for humanity ...

America must create the law that will govern the colonization of space. In his inaugural address, President Donald J. Trump said: The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, ...

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.