Who are the best stars for Mars? Computational social scientists at George Mason University have published a new paper that reveals the ideal types of Earthlings to inhabit Mars upon the red planet’s ...

SYFY's The Ark (streaming now on Peacock!) imagines a future, just a century from now, when humanity is embarking on its first expeditions to another star system. And when you’re going someplace that ...

Cooperative personalities will go a long way to a sustainable community on the Red Planet. When it comes to building a sustainable settlement on Mars, the technological and engineering challenges are ...

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 ...

Five hundred years is a long time, even for human civilization. That’s why it is significant and worth considering that the colonization of space, which finally appears to be on the near horizon, is a ...

As humanity's interest shifts to the far-off promise of Mars, a team of computational social scientists from George Mason University tells us about the optimal recipe for kickstarting a thriving human ...

When you think of colonies on other planets, you probably think of large groups of people congregating in colony bases like you've seen in science fiction movies and shows. However, a new study claims ...

In a recent interview, Elon Musk repeated his stated goal of wanting to transport one million people to Mars by 2050. The SpaceX founder says the future of humanity is at stake, which, okay, but the ...

To some, colonizing Mars with billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is a lifelong dream. To others, including longtime NASA astronaut Stanley Love, it sounds like pure misery. “Do I think it’s possible?