It wasn't until maybe a year before we were done writing — and we wrote for four years — that we decided this book is actually about why space settlements aren't coming soon. When you purchase through ...

The promise of starting life anew on Mars may appear alluring, even feasible, as the climate crisis intensifies and space and rocket technology advances. But the reality would be dreadful, according ...

We read about caves on the Moon, uncomfortably detailed orbital mating concepts, space madness, Moon law, plans for Martian company towns, hopes for new ways of life in distant worlds. We read dozens ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — It has been an amazing mission from the beginning. Getting two tremendously intricate machines funded, designed, built, tested, approved, launched, landed safely on a planet millions of ...

The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars is a geological and meta-historical look at the fourth planet in our solar system from the Sun. Written by a well-known science fiction writer who has a PhD ...

Few directors are as successful or adaptable as James Cameron. The storied visionary has brought everything from historical romance to far-flung science fiction to life on the big screen. Many of his ...

On 27th August, Mars will be at its closest to Earth for almost 60,000 years. On that date, the Red Planet will approach to within 34,646,418 miles (55,758,006 km) — 145 times the distance of the Moon ...

A cute new photo courtesy of the Mars rover Curiosity shows a miniature book-shaped rock nestled in the soil of the Gale Crater. The shape is the result of an interplay of wind, water—and the human ...

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