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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 ...

Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in ...

Scientists studying volcanic eruptions in Iceland say microbes begin colonizing new lava flows faster and more predictably than once thought.

If you're banking on Earth being around forever, Elon Musk has some grim news: we're living on borrowed time—and the sun has the final say. In a recent interview on Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime, ...

President Donald Trump’s single reference to space in his second inaugural address Monday pointed in an unexpected direction. In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space ...

Recent scientific discoveries indicate that the planet Mars might be more than just a barren wasteland. Its extensive network of caves could harbor life, providing the right conditions for it to ...

I'm always reminded of the original Prius. A very unique looking car that screamed "economobile" Then most of the electric cars were seen as "go carts" Very small economy cars. Tesla's strength IMO is ...

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 ...