Elon Musk’s bombshell decision to freeze plans to begin building a human colony on Mars, in favor of fostering a Moon city, is a cosmic mistake, says a top Mars scholar.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a pivot from Mars to the moon, one detail of his plan caused eyebrows to raise. Musk plans to build something called a mass driver on the lunar ...

When Elon Musk founded SpaceX (which is currently one of the most valuable private companies in the world), he did so with the dream of setting up colonies on Mars. A lofty goal, mostly because we've really only sent rovers to take pictures of mars.

Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that no matter how financially successful SpaceX may be, the company will have failed in his eyes if the primary objective – the colonization of Mars – is not achieved. Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson quotes him ...

It may sound like science fiction, but this Israeli technology is currently being developed in Caesarea at the experimental laboratory of startup Moonshot Space. The immediate goal is to challenge the way giant organizations like NASA and SpaceX view space launches,

Is the Artemis II mission worth it? Your answers ranged from serious skepticism of the costly program to excitement over our continued exploration.