SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced a shift in focus as the company will now prioritize building a self-growing city on the Moon. This move is expected to be achievable in less than ten years. Mars ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

When Philip K. Dick imagined artificial beings in his book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," the question was whether machines could think and feel like humans. Today, NASA is posing a related, ...

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