Humanity’s dream of settling on Mars is becoming more achievable, thanks to major strides in space exploration. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, believes a sustainable human presence on the Red Planet is ...

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 ...

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.

SpaceX is about to launch the ninth test of its huge Starship system, which the company believes will drive down costs to reach space and help make human life multiplanetary.