President Donald Trump recently announced an ambitious goal: sending astronauts to Mars within four years, aligning with the length of a presidential term ...

From the blog of Adrian Stein at The Times of Israel ...

A book called "Mars Project" originated as a technical appendix to a science fiction novel, both of which were written by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun.  The technical appendix was ...

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking ...

Democrats lost in 2024 because most people had no idea where they stood on the things Americans actually care about.

Did famed German-American aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun actually predict Elon Musk would rule Mars? The answer might ...

As our planet gets less habitable, the idea has popped up of moving to Mars while we give it a good ... There are no billion-dollar budgets or grand plans. Just old-fashioned wisdom hiding in ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s. ESA is already planning to send the much-delayed, life-hunting Rosalind Franklin rover ...

Musk, undeterred, said the company still plans to launch uncrewed missions to the Red Planet as early as 2026, when the planets' orbits will next align. (Earth/Mars "transfer windows," as such ...

Musk's ambitious plans include sending uncrewed Starships to Mars as early as 2026 and crewed missions by 2028—timelines many experts view as optimistic. Trump's enthusiasm for sending ...