For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

Many believe we need to colonize space to get all of our eggs out of one basket, in case something should happen to Earth, but colonizing space might be the best way to protect and preserve our world.

Supporters of planetary colonization argue that becoming a multi-planet species could safeguard us from potentially ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Credit - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since ...

NASA and Nokia, the Finnish telecom, announced a partnership to put a 4G cellular communications network on the moon, a key ...

HONG KONG — The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth, world-renowned ...

"We hope the impact of this research will be to guide future studies that keep astronauts healthy during extended space travel and in colonizing space." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. At an internal staff briefing last week, acting NASA ...

Jeff Bezos wants to colonize space. But he knows there's a lot of work to be done before that's possible. First we need cheap, reusable rockets. Then we need to mine resources on the Moon. It's ...