Colonizing Mars may be a near impossible task, but that doesn't mean humans won't try anyway. Check out what a successful ...

In an interview earlier this year, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, delivered a sobering assessment of Earth’s future, suggesting it may not be able to support humanity for much longer. SpaceX ...

This book’s strength lies in its authorship: it is not written by a physicist enthralled by the engineering challenge of Mars ...

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In a similar vein - it was only a few years ago that fellow Arsians were telling me that it was impossible to build a drone that was capable of carrying living people, that the physics math didn't add ...

Near the start of the 20th century, a strange phenomenon swept the country — "Mars Mania," a public obsession with the idea, pushed by astronomer Percival Lowell, that Mars was home to an intelligent ...

With those things in mind, colonizing Mars is a multi-step process and the reasons to go there kind of automatically roll out of an expansionist view of future humanity: First of all, you have to get ...