Plans for the exploration and even colonization of other planets are very much in the air, and getting to Mars in particular has become a billionaire's hobby lately. Elon Musk would like to ...

The reason I ask is that some religious people I know say God would not want us to settle other worlds. They say that if God wanted us on other planets, God would have put us there already.

Humans must colonize planets in other solar systems — traveling there using "Star Trek"-style propulsion — or face extinction, British cosmologist Stephen Hawking said Thursday.

SpaceX’s Raptor engine isn’t just a bigger, badder rocket booster—it’s the cornerstone of Elon Musk’s plan to colonize Mars.

In questioning the rationale behind plans to colonize other planets, former President Barack Obama put it this way earlier this year: "I would rather us invest in taking care of this planet here.” ...

The idea of colonizing other planets is foreign to the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, so there is really nothing in the Bible to prohibit or encourage it. How we might do it, though ...

How long would it take for us to colonize the Red Planet? (Image credit: Janiecbros via Getty Images) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to have a city of a million people on Mars by 2050.

Because there are no other planets like Earth in our own solar system, Hawking said humans will have to travel to another star to find a hospitable planet to colonize. • Click here to visit ...