For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

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

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 ...

Have you heard the news? Mars has ice, and that ice is made from clean water. With this discovery we’re one step closer to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

There's an asymmetry there though—it's cheaper coming down than going up. If you're after raw materials, then in principle you don't need to put that much mass in space to bring a lot of mass back to ...

Elon Musk announced at Starbase, Texas, that SpaceX aims to launch its first uncrewed mission to Mars by late next year using the fully reusable Starship system. His long-term goal is to build a ...