NASA and Elon Musk are racing toward the same destination, but they are not running the same race. While SpaceX talks in terms of the next launch window, NASA is quietly building a layered campaign of ...

Everyone’s talking about colonizing Mars… but what if the real plan B is even more extreme? Today we challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of space colonization. Venus, Earth’s so ...

Temple Beth El in Williamsburg was recently once again a forum for a Sunday lecture. This time it was Dr. Joel Levine, who spent 41 years as a senior research scientist in the Science Directorate at ...

Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future ...

Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its ...

Life on Mars is still a big maybe, but if humans ever manage to settle there, they won’t go alone. Any future colony will need organisms that can tolerate intense radiation and a serious lack of ...