Let's talk about why colonizing space might not be as cool as it sounds. First off, space is a harsh and unforgiving ...

The experiment was failing. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian was in a cave in Spain, one outfitted to resemble the surface of a foreign planet, and she knew it was time to pull out. The goal had been to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both have ambitions of space colonization. But the billionaires disagree on how exactly that future will ...

Models help scientists understand everything from the particles that make up the universe to massive superstructures of galaxies at the beginning of time. But sometimes they model more mundane, though ...

As Earth faces growing environmental pressure, the idea of becoming a multi-planetary species is gaining urgency. But ...

If we want to someday live on Mars, spaceships won’t be enough. We would need a Martian city—and this is how we might build one. In many ways, the problem of moving to Mars is simply a packing problem ...

The commercial space industry has boomed in recent years, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin leading the pack. Their respective founders, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, essentially share the same ...

Former President Barack Obama has expressed skepticism about the potential of space colonization to save Earth, slamming Tesla Inc. CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Jeff Bezos said in a recent interview that he hopes for a distant future in which "a trillion" humans ...