Elon Musk's long-standing ambition to build a human colony on Mars may be running into a very human obstacle. New research ...

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When Elon Musk founded SpaceX (which is currently one of the most valuable private companies in the world), he did so with the dream of setting up colonies on Mars. A lofty goal, mostly because we've ...

The idea of an AI-powered app to simulate Mars colonization turns the overwhelming prospect of colonizing the Red Planet into ...

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, ...