The unexpected change comes on the heels of the White House 2026 budget proposal, which includes increased funding for Mars-related projects by $1 billion and the promise to pay for the launches. The ...

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Even so, Musk envisions eventually building his space-based AI data centers on the moon and then launching them with an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Holden Platt writes on space defense, SpaceX, ISS, Space War I American scientists envision creating a network of ...

A NASA spokesman denied on Thursday that the space agency is running a child slave colony on Mars, populating it with kidnapped children. Radio host Alex Jones, known for presenting conspiracy ...

Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget request that would cancel almost all NASA science missions in order to focus on putting humans on Mars. It's mainly a showy, ...

High-energy space radiation will threaten the Mars settlements that Elon Musk hopes to build with SpaceX, as well as NASA outposts for astronauts.

For many years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been hellbent on sending humans to the surface of Mars. But a pesky foe could derail all that. As detailed in a recent study published in the journal GeoHealth ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since 2014, is experiencing an unprecedented communication failure. The ...

NASA reported 2025 achievements in lunar, Mars, and Earth science missions, including Artemis II preparations, CLPS landers, Mars ESCAPADE, ISS research, heliophysics, and new astronaut candidates.

Former NASA astronaut José Hernández stated on Monday that human travel to Mars is far away. What Happened: During an interview with The Hill, Hernández said travel to Mars is still “a good 15 years ...