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That’s impressive given that, by Musk’s own math, something in the order of $1 trillion is required to colonize Mars—if he can finally get the company’s delayed, giant spaceship working.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Now, SpaceX is planning to price its IPO at $135 a share at a valuation of roughly $1.77 trillion, with ambitions to colonize Mars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

These "whale fall" sites create temporary but rich ecosystems where microbes quickly colonize and flourish.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

The discovery that bacteria can colonize surfaces even when their normal swimming machinery fails has important health implications.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

I mean, if I were a louse I’d choose him to colonize.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

In their native Japan, the East Asian Joro spider colonizes most of the country.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

Despite its gruesome appearance, this mushroom is beneficial for the coniferous trees it colonizes.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023

The fungus colonizes the trays, resulting in a material that, through an undisclosed proprietary procedure, looks and feels like leather, according to the company.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 28, 2022

Sometimes a fraction of a population breaks away and colonizes a new habitat.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018

What he feels on the worst days of that relentless winter—while rust colonizes the truck and rifles and radios, while German divisions retreat all around them—is a deep scorn for all the humans they pass.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The later microbes could have colonized the body while it remained frozen in the glacier or during more than 30 years of modern conservation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Before Europeans colonized North America, bald eagles were pretty much everywhere there was a river, lake, or stream large enough to support sizable fish.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

It accounts for more than 200,000 jobs and has colonized entire neighborhoods.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

At the store’s fine-dining venue Maison Passerelle, which opened in April last year, Gourdet places Haitian flavors alongside those of Vietnam, Morocco and other places formerly colonized by France.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Grasses colonized the gullies, the thin soils deepened, and the rock outcrops disappeared under a fresh layer of sod.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

This frontier, it turns out, is both geographic — as embodied by the ever-expanding borders of a nation intent on colonizing and conquering much of the continent — and psychological.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Those include colonizing Mars, putting more than 1 million satellites in orbit and putting mass drivers on the moon.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Because wolves are not capable of naturally colonizing such an island across open sea, researchers believe humans must have brought the animals there, likely by boat.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

SpaceX has already sparked a nascent space economy, and Musk has a long-term vision of a multiplanetary future that includes AI data centers in orbit and colonizing Mars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

The snow was colonizing her, breath by breath.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu