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.

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 ...

Elon Musk wants to start his planned colonization of Mars by sending his first SpaceX rocket to the red planet by the end of 2026. He has said humans could be there by 2029, but that 2031 was more ...

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 ...

Temple Beth El in Williamsburg was recently once again a forum for a Sunday lecture. This time it was Dr. Joel Levine, who spent 41 years as a senior research scientist in the Science Directorate at ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that no matter how financially successful SpaceX may be, the company will have failed in his eyes if the primary objective – the colonization of Mars – is not ...

Biological limits A sustainable Mars colony will need to include raising children there, but childbirth would be very risky on Mars. (Courtesy: iStock/Denis Art) “It’s hard to say when exactly sending ...

For many years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been hellbent on sending humans to the surface of Mars. But a pesky foe could derail all that. As detailed in a recent study published in the journal GeoHealth ...

Interior view of a possible habitat on Mars by the Mars One project. Interior view of a possible habitat on Mars for the Mars One project. Mars One is a not-for-profit organization that will establish ...