Elon Musk’s bombshell decision to freeze plans to begin building a human colony on Mars, in favor of fostering a Moon city, is a cosmic mistake, says a top Mars scholar.

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman praised SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Saturday after the crew spotted Mars during their lunar flyby, saying there is "zero doubt" humans will reach the planet soon.

Elon Musk sells Mars as humanity’s escape hatch, a bold new world where a million people build a self-sustaining city. But the deeper you look, the more the dream starts to feel like a high-risk gamble nobody fully admits out loud.

It's an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity's first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars? As recently as last year, SpaceX founder Elon Musk saw missions to the moon as a "distraction." In a post to his X social-media ...

Last week I asked what you thought about Elon Musk's pivot away from Mars to concentrate more on establishibng a city on the moon. I had to chuckle when I read the results. More than 60% of readers responded by checking the "Don't care" box. I'm going to ...