Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s book overturns Elon Musk’s claim that we could live on the red planet within years while stressing the good reasons to pursue space settlement

A book debunking Elon Musk’s claims that humans could live on Mars in the near future has won the £25,000 Royal Society Trivedi science book prize.

A City on Mars by American couple Kelly and Zach Weinersmith was announced as the winning book at a ceremony at the Royal Society in London on Thursday evening.