A single pale rock in an ancient Martian riverbed is forcing scientists to rethink when, where, and how life might have taken hold on the Red Planet. Instead of a slow, abstract search for ...

Elon Musk has switched up his out-of-this-world focus, putting aside his Mars project to set up shop on the Moon. Musk’s SpaceX has long claimed that it will ‘colonise Mars’, though critics have often ...

A crane, marked by the SpaceX logo, sits near the Starbase launch site in Cameron County, Texas, on February 6, 2026. Reporter SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday that his company had “shifted focus ...

The vision of Mars colonization is moving from science fiction into real-world planning, with multiple space agencies preparing for long-term human presence. Modern Mars missions focus on testing ...