Introduction: If there is water on the Moon, is there no need to transport it from Earth?Let's assume we are going to build a ...

Space is full of treasures. Literally. If we were able to extract the resources from the rocks in the asteroid belt alone, we ...

The notion of a moon base, fanciful as it might sound, isn’t new. But this year, under the leadership of Administrator Jared ...

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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) discovered a rock on Mars that could hold clues to whether life ...

Water ice on Mars could be a valuable resource for future explorers. ESA's Mars Express mission may have found it at the ...

On 20 October, a rocket will blast off from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) Tanegashima Space Center, flinging a spacecraft the size of a car to Mars. When it arrives, it’ll swoop ...

This article appears in the November 2026 print edition with the headline “Choose Your Overlord.” When you buy a book using a ...

Since its founding in 1958, NASA has advanced its operational goals through college partnerships. Here are some recently ...

From Stowaway to Mission to Mars, these hard sci-fi misfires trade scientific rigor for contrivances, shortcuts, and spectacle.

Taken by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera, this view of Korolev crater near the north pole of Mars comprises five different ‘strips’ that have been combined to form a single image, with ...

Could a colony on Mars survive without supplies from Earth? We examine the full range of human needs, from oxygen and radiation protection to the psychological well-being of a confined crew ...