What makes colonizing Mars a good idea? Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Is probably the best example but it mostly uses the backdrop of Mars as a plot device ...

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In an interview earlier this year, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, delivered a sobering assessment of Earth’s future, suggesting it may not be able to support humanity for much longer. SpaceX ...

SpaceX’s development of Starship marks a pivotal step in realizing Elon Musk’s long-standing ambition to colonize Mars. Exploring the motivations behind this audacious project and the technological ...

This book’s strength lies in its authorship: it is not written by a physicist enthralled by the engineering challenge of Mars ...

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 ...

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Near the start of the 20th century, a strange phenomenon swept the country — "Mars Mania," a public obsession with the idea, pushed by astronomer Percival Lowell, that Mars was home to an intelligent ...

Directed by executive producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, MARS is an epic series following the exciting quest - in 2032 - to colonize the planet Mars. In this video, experts discuss what this ...

In a similar vein - it was only a few years ago that fellow Arsians were telling me that it was impossible to build a drone that was capable of carrying living people, that the physics math didn't add ...