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.

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

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 ...

Elon Musk has redrawn SpaceX’s roadmap, shelving near term dreams of a crewed Mars colony in favor of a self expanding ...

Design, fear, and greed. After 25 years of obsessing over Mars, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has shifted focus from invading the Red Planet to invading the moon. He claims he will build a ...

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 ...

The overriding priority is securing the future of civilization, and the Moon is faster,' Elon Musk confirms SpaceX's new ...