We are living in a new era of space exploration, with multiple agencies planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the coming decade by crewed missions to Mars by NASA and … Read More
During a high-level discussion of NASA’s goals for human space exploration, we got an early look at what a 30-day crewed mission to Mars’ surface could eventually look like. It’s an exciting prospect that, while many years, if not decades, … Read More
Strange new images of Mars suggest that aliens could be building towers on the planet’s surface Since the 1970s, scientists and enthusiasts have discovered a variety of objects on the surface of Mars. Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer, announced the … Read More
Just four years ago, perhaps the most inspiring start of modern space rocket launches took place. A start by Elon Musk’s most progressive private space company, SpaceX, which made millions of people dream again. This was a start-up performance: The … Read More
Author: Chris Impey When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity’s first steps out of Africa. Such a birth would mark the beginning of a multi–planet civilization for the human species. For the … Read More
With bugs, algae and other resource-efficient foods we could feed one million people on Mars within a century of arriving there. Scientists even invented a martian diet. In the science fiction novel and film The Martian, a stranded astronaut survives … Read More