As NASA makes plans to one day send humans to Mars, one of the key technical gaps the agency is working to fill is how to provide enough power on the Red Planet’s surface for fuel production, habitats ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...

With the successful launch of NASA’s Orion spacecraft — the one that will supposedly take astronauts to Mars by the 2030s — it may seem like we are closer than ever to colonizing the Red Planet. Paul ...

Stephen Fenech is no reluctant astronaut, even though the trip he hopes to make will take him from Earth forever. Toronto’s Fenech is now a one-percenter with the Mars One gang, a project with the ...

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Forget rovers. NASA's Skyfall mission will drop six autonomous helicopters into Mars’ atmosphere like cosmic paratroopers—an audacious move aiming to rewrite how we explore alien worlds. Ingenuity ...

Is it time for humans to inhabit space? SpaceX and NASA certainly think so. Elon Musk's space company had its first rocket test flight and Musk has been vocal about his goal to reach Mars. NASA has ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson dreams of a world with warp drives. Cosmologist Max Tegmark's research was inspired by the sci-fi novel "Permutation City." Some space travel experts often quote the Star Trek ...

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NASA and Nokia, the Finnish telecom, announced a partnership to put a 4G cellular communications network on the moon, a key ...