Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

In truth, Mars is currently in worse shape than any possible scenario for Earth short of an all-out nuclear war. Nor could a Mars colony survive into the foreseeable future without support from Earth.

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

"We’re a good 15 years away from going to Mars, not five years as Elon Musk alludes to," former NASA astronaut José Hernández ...

Elon Musk announced that SpaceX's Starship would launch for Mars in late 2026, carrying Tesla's Optimus robot. Human landings ...

Elon Musk has a very strong obsession with space and with Mars. His goal is to "colonize it". This is how the Argentine businessman Martin Varsavsky, who maintains a friendship wit ...

Barack Obama, a former US president, quite famously said once that Earth is more habitable than Mars even after a nuclear war. These critiques define a tension between high-flying ambitions for space ...

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human-made nuclear material called plutonium-238, and it converts a portion of the heat released by the decaying plutonium into electricity. Though NASA expects Mars 2020 to last about one year on ...

MARS BLUFF — Ella ... decided not to carry nuclear warheads on training runs. They called the lost bombs "broken arrows." The era was the dawn of the Cold War, when atomic bombs were still ...