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Mercury retrograde gets a lot of hype for astrology aficionados. However, other planets also have retrograde motion and appear to move backward in the sky, too. Unlike Mercury, who backslides three to ...
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Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...
Experts weigh in on the scientific realities of the journey to the Red Planet. It’s been a lofty goal America's leaders have set their sights on for generations, and President Donald Trump kicked off ...
Elon Musk has unveiled a bold – and detailed – vision for Mars. It starts with one uncrewed Starship traveling to the red planet next year and culminates with thousands of spacecraft headed there ...
When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...
You know how it goes: You’re trying to get some shut-eye in your bunk after a long shift of scraping samples of prebiotic material from red rocks in Utopia Planitia, and before you know it, your alarm ...
If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way. Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against ...
Back in 1969, Robert Zubrin remembers watching the first moon landing when he was a teenager. He says if someone back then had asked him to predict when astronauts would walk on Mars, "my guess would ...