What steps can be taken to ensure future space settlements on the Moon and Mars are constructed with the same efficiency as on Earth? This is what a recent NASA Early Stage Innovations award hopes to ...

There are substantial technical, political, and financial obstacles to starting the colonization of Mars within the next few decades. SpaceX is farther along than most toward this ambitious goal.

Three autonomous robots were sent into a volcanic lava tunnel in Lanzarote to simulate the exploration of underground tunnels on the Moon and Mars. A European mission highlights an innovative approach ...

It’s like making popcorn. First, it’s just one little kernel that pops, then a couple more, and pretty soon, it’s rapid machine gunfire — pop pop pop pop pop pop! That’s how it is with space flights ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Dark Skies is the first work to assess the full impacts of space expansion, past, present and future. Thinking about space, and the visions ...

Three books push back on a rising tide of optimism about space settlements. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an ...

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