Many are passionate about colonizing outer space. They argue that it can be "Plan B" to rescue earth, or a solution to depleting resources and human overpopulation, or a way to move polluting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Bezos dreams of a future where a trillion humans live inside gigantic space stations floating throughout the solar ...

In a 2023 white paper, a group of concerned astronomers warned against repeating Earthly “colonial practices” in outer space. But what’s wrong with colonizing space if there’s nothing there to begin ...

The commercial space industry has boomed in recent years, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin leading the pack. Their respective founders, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, essentially share the same ...

When people imagine humanity’s future beyond Earth, Mars is usually the first destination that comes to mind. It is close, ...

Multiple agencies, including private and government, are looking at how to sustain life outside of Earth. Elon Musk has a lifetime goal of creating a "self-sustaining" city of at least 1 million ...

SpaceX's blockbuster IPO filing included some out-of-this-world details, including a provision that founder Elon Musk's ...

The experiment was failing. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian was in a cave in Spain, one outfitted to resemble the surface of a foreign planet, and she knew it was time to pull out. The goal had been to ...

What steps can be taken to ensure future space settlements on the Moon and Mars are constructed with the same efficiency as on Earth? This is what a recent NASA Early Stage Innovations award hopes to ...