SpaceX has approved a compensation plan for Elon Musk that ties massive stock awards to achieving a $7.5 trillion valuation and establishing a million-person Mars colony, as well as building orbital data centers. The plan comes as SpaceX prepares for a ...

I watched Armageddon again fairly recently with Bruce Willis, oil drillers in space and an asteroid the size of Texas bearing down on Earth. Buried beneath the Hollywood chaos is a genuinely interesting question: What exactly could we do with an asteroid if we got our hands on one?

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.