Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building a city on the moon.

SpaceX’s decision to focus on establishing a lunar city ahead of building a Mars colony represents a significant shift in Elon Musk’s space exploration ambitions ...

NASA has talked about doing its own form of in situ lunar habitation. The Chinese have actually tested the technology—albeit only a rudimentary version. While the United States has placed a former ...

Last year, Musk said "the moon is a distraction." Now, he's talking about building a city there. The shift may be more ...

In the 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the American writer Robert Heinlein conjures a penal colony on the Moon. There’s three million humans up there, and they’re called “Loonies” (lunar ...

Who said the Cold War wasn’t back in full force? Russian newspaper Izvestia said that it has gained access to a draft government program that plans to have a manned colony on the moon by 2030. The ...