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When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks about making humanity a multi-planet species by founding a Mars colony, he gets positively mystical about his desire to “preserve the light of human consciousness.” ...

“There’s high urgency to making life multi-planetary,” he said, according to The New York Times. “We’ve got to do it while civilization is so strong.” Still, he’s making preparations for Mars. Musk ...

The cosmos has long been a canvas for creatives who imagine a future where people live among the stars. Now, humanity stands at a pivotal juncture as the laborious, expensive and high-stakes process ...

Billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk is certainly very hands-on with his work, but not to that extent, apparently. Elon Musk has denied a New York Times report suggesting he had volunteered his sperm to ...

One of the plotlines for season 4 of the hit TV series “For All Mankind” is an attempt to use a Mars colony as a base to mine the asteroids of the main belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It ...