Mars

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla, has made a bold prediction about the future of human habitation on Mars, predicting a city on the red planet within 30 years.

Scientists are working to make human reproduction possible in space — an effort they view as an obvious next step as billionaires push to establish colonies on Mars and Venus.

Four people were locked inside a Mars simulation on Sunday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and will remain there for over a year.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Monday released a global map of Mars, compiled using images from the Tianwen-1 orbiter. The map used the names of Chinese towns and villages for 22 Martian terrain features.

The Mars candy company said Thursday it will debut all-female M&M’s packages for a limited time to honor women.

M&M’s has a new all-singing, all-dancing color candy on the way. The first female peanut “spokescandy” will be Purple and is charged with delivering “acceptance and inclusivity” through music, song and the performative arts to a waiting world.

PARIS (AP) – Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe will no longer be attempting this year to send its first rover to Mars, which was to have probed whether the planet ever hosted life.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stated at a recent event that he believes will most future humans will not live on Earth and will think of the planet as a protected national park that they visit as a tourist attraction.

The future of space exploration will likely be some sort of public-private partnership. If space-bound billionaires are willing to do their part for the nation and if American political leaders have the vision to see space travel as a 1492-like opportunity, then this could be the beginning of a new epoch of American Greatness. 

A Chinese rover has reportedly landed on Mars, making China the second nation, behind the United States, to accomplish a landing on the planet.

Just last week, NASA hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a private spacecraft, the Dragon, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

As President Joe Biden and other world leaders warn about the dangers of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is making history on the planet Mars as its high-tech equipment, for the first time, is turning CO2 into oxygen.

The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) documented the first successful flight of an aircraft over another planet as the Ingenuity helicopter flew 10 feet above the surface of Mars for 39 seconds on Monday. 

NASA has released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars.

It took 203 days to travel the 293 million miles through space for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Perseverance Rover to reach Mars and a few more hours for the craft to successfully land on the planet Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Tuesday that its unmanned spacecraft, named “Amal” or “Hope,” has entered orbit around Mars. The UAE thus became the fifth nation to reach Mars, and the first Arab nation to do so.

The milestones President Donald Trump made in U.S. space exploration will no doubt last light-years after he leaves office.

President Donald Trump chuckled during his campaign rally in Arizona on Wednesday when a supporter shouted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should be sent to Mars.

NASA will launch a rocket on Thursday morning to Mars on a mission that will include deploying a rover, a helicopter, and collecting samples that scientists hope may show signs of life on the red planet.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday touted advances in the “great socialist cause” over the past century, including the “War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea” – i.e. the Chinese military intervention that unleashed the inhuman evil of the North Korean Communist regime upon the people of Korea and the world – and culminating in China’s launch of an unmanned mission to Mars. Meanwhile, southern China remains submerged in flood water and nervous residents wonder if the huge Three Gorges Dam can withstand the stress from the swollen Yangtze River.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched its first mission to Mars on Monday in what is the Arab world’s first-ever space exploration. 

Hours after Quaker Oats announced that it would rename the Aunt Jemima logo on its brand of maple syrup and other breakfast foods, Uncle Ben’s Rice announced that it would be changing its “brand identity” to “end racial biases and injustices.”

The Curiosity Rover on Mars is reportedly frozen in place following a systems failure that has rendered the robot unable to determine its position and altitude.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket suffered another setback this week after it partially burst apart during pressure testing in Texas.

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has claimed that the space agency would enable humans to fly to Mars by 2035.

The Wall Street Journal claims that SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s optimism on his timeline to take humans to Mars stands in stark contrast with the extended delays SpaceX has suffered on a NASA project aimed at transporting astronauts to the international space station.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated in a recent interview that he believes it possible to send a manned mission to the moon within the next two years and a crew to Mars within the next four.

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said the agency is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission with plans for a Mars landing.

SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was mocked on Twitter recently for mistaking the moon for Mars in a tweet. The tweet was a meme reading “occupy Mars,” but mistakenly featured an image of a blood moon instead of the red planet.

Trump was effusive about updates to the budget supporting the Special Olympics, and a return to space “in a BIG WAY.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos traded barbs about their competing space exploration plans this week in a clash of the space-obsessed billionaires.

Vice President Mike Pence brought word from the president Tuesday that the U.S. will put an American back on the Moon within five years.

The National China Space Administration marked a space exploration milestone on Thursday when it claimed to have landed a spacecraft equipped with a rover vehicle on what is commonly referred to as the dark side of the moon.

NASA’s successful landing of its InSight spacecraft on Mars marks the start of a two-year exploration mission on the Red Planet.

Mars got slightly more crowded on Monday. At 2:56 p.m. ET, NASA confirmed that its InSight spacecraft safely touched down on the Martian surface.

In an interview with “Axios on HBO,” Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk said there is a “70 percent” chance he will personally ride one of his SpaceX rockets to Mars. “I’m talking about moving there,” Musk stated. He acknowledged the