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SpaceX shared a video in which founder Elon Musk gave a timeline for the company's Starship to reach Mars in the years ahead.
Humans have looked at Mars for centuries with lust in their eyes. Over the past six decades or so, they've even reached the place, indirectly, by means of spacecraft. And yet, until now they've ...
Mars has called to us since ancient times. To humans across the eons, the red-tinted speck glinting in the night sky has garnered special attention, with myths and legends wound around its ...
"If we don't improve our pace of progress, I'm definitely going to be dead before we go to Mars," said Elon Musk at the ...
Mars may soon welcome explorers seeking ice deposits crucial for human survival. Recent findings suggest significant ice ...
Going from (maybe, possibility, extremely optimistically) launching an uncrewed test flight in 2026, to getting actual humans to Mars within the next 10 years? Not a chance.
NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to ...
Before landing the first humans on Mars, NASA wants to return to the lunar surface and establish a sustained human presence on the moon. The lessons learned from the beginning of the Artemis ...
Pushing out bad traits and optimizing a human for life on Mars could give us a big edge, but as generations pass it would also result in a new kind of human — one who is fine on Mars but could ...
Proponents of going to Mars see peril and opportunity in Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump. Experts say just getting Americans back to the moon in the near future will be challenging enough.
"If we don't improve our pace of progress, I'm definitely going to be dead before we go to Mars," said Elon Musk at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington, D.C., according to a report from ...