Those serving six-month missions aboard the International Space Station must exercise for two hours per day to stave off ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold. But the moon, where even NASA aims to return astronauts as early as ...

Elon Musk recently announced that SpaceX is putting Mars colonization on the back burner. Instead, he plans to build a cosmic ...

If you're banking on Earth being around forever, Elon Musk has some grim news: we're living on borrowed time—and the sun has the final say. In a recent interview on Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime, ...

For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling everything from Earth and the difficulty of building safe shelters on a hostile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in ...

Humans colonizing Mars might be possible — but it’s brutally difficult. The real breakthrough could be robots: rovers, walking machines, and helicopter drones that can explore places humans can’t ...

Elon Musk revealed to Fox News’ Jesse Watters that his desire to colonize Mars stems from wanting to get the entire human race a “life insurance” policy. “Mars is life insurance for life collectively, ...

What makes colonizing Mars a good idea? Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Is probably the best example but it mostly uses the backdrop of Mars as a plot device ...

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, ...

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 ...

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold. Instead, the world's richest man said SpaceX, his commercial rocket company, will turn its attention a little closer to home: the moon. The ...