Elon Musk recently announced that SpaceX is putting Mars colonization on the back burner. Instead, he plans to build a cosmic city much closer to home.

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Arthur Clarke, screenwriter for the blockbuster film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has been resurrected as an advanced OpenAI chatbot to help map out the transformation of Mars into a new Eden for humanity ...

life in a Mars colony will push human endurance to its limits it will break us down to our most Primal state where strength comes from community and survival has to be earned on a daily basis just ...

There are substantial technical, political, and financial obstacles to starting the colonization of Mars within the next few decades. SpaceX is farther along than most toward this ambitious goal.

Musk has missed several of his own predictions for when his company would take humans to Mars.

Biological limits A sustainable Mars colony will need to include raising children there, but childbirth would be very risky on Mars. (Courtesy: iStock/Denis Art) “It’s hard to say when exactly sending ...