NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s, How and why it plans to build up to a long‑term lunar presence

The next U.S. trip to the moon isn't about planting a flag. It's about learning how to live and work there. NASA has just ...
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Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

As the New Scientist Book Club reads Kim Stanley Robinson’s science-fiction novel in April, George Bass digs into why this ...

Mackenzie Calle’s above and beyond photography goes inside a Mars simulation

From Calle’s habitat, known as MDRS, the cotton candy sky against the red rocks of the Western United States “felt like Mars, ...