How long would it take for us to colonize the Red Planet? (Image credit: Janiecbros via Getty Images) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to have a city of a million people on Mars by 2050.

In November, Stephen Hawking warned that humans needed to colonize another planet within 1,000 years. Now, six months later, he’s saying we have to do it within 100 years in order to avoid ...

But one major challenge to long-term colonization of Mars is the planet's lack of a strong, global magnetic field like that of Earth's. In a new paper, ...

Forget the moon. A new startup is aiming to set up shop on an even more distant land. Mars One, a private space venture from the Netherlands, hopes to send astronauts on a one-way journey to Mars ...

The planet is not merely revealing itself to humans but being colonized: by our stuff and our accepted ways of seeing and communicating. These may seem like negligible imprints on a relatively ...

Although considering the last 500 years of colonization on this planet alone, one could wonder whose lives, according to Musk and other rich white men like himself, are worth being insured.

Even Robinson questions whether we should colonize Mars, indeed he has said of the Mars One project, which aims to establish a permanent human settlement on the planet: ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Planet Colonization Real time strategy and society management game. Explore the planet, build and defend your colony. Trade products and armaments and ...

If you want to colonize another planet, look for one with a surface you can land on. That means, unless you’ve got your sights set on a boiled-off planetary core, to steer clear of the super-Earths.