SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company's Interplanetary Transport System for Mars colonization and beyond on Sept. 27, 2016 at International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. You can ...

We launched a cryptoendolithic habitat, made of a gneissic impactite inoculated with Chroococcidiopsis sp., into Earth orbit. After orbiting the Earth for 16 days, the rock entered the Earth’s ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether this could have occurred between Earth and Mars (in both directions). However, the recent controversy over the possible existence of microbial life in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Sept. 27, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company's plan to start a 1-million ...

Now we know how Elon Musk plans to get 1 million people to Mars. At a conference in Mexico today (Sept. 27), the SpaceX founder and CEO unveiled the company's Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), ...

Whether it's robotic rovers heading to Mars or, one day, a crew of astronauts, a round-trip journey is an incredibly long one. But there may be a way to find a shortcut. A new study published in the ...

Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released a video that details its long-awaited “Interplanetary Transport System.” The video was published less than an hour before CEO Elon Musk was scheduled to ...

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For decades,reaching Mars has meant committing to long, complex journeys across millions of miles of space, missions measured in years, not months. But what if a faster route has been hiding in plain ...