A thought experiment on the potential future implications of allowing private enterprise to colonize space.

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 ...

Trillionaire Elon Musk aims to have rockets blast off from Earth before the end of 2026, sending the first materials to the moon and Mars to start building colonies. The world’s first trillionaire is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The commercial space industry has boomed in recent years, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin leading the pack. Their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Bezos dreams of a future where a trillion humans live inside gigantic space stations floating throughout the solar ...

Many are passionate about colonizing outer space. They argue that it can be "Plan B" to rescue earth, or a solution to depleting resources and human overpopulation, or a way to move polluting ...

Maybe infinity and beyond should wait. Prominent physicists and wealthy tycoons envision life scattered across the solar system. Elon Musk wants humans to become a multiplanetary species. Jeff Bezos ...

The Earth is doomed, and the only question is how long humanity has left. Fortunately, we have options: in the past few years there’s been a flurry of potentially habitable planets discovered. In June ...