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Nature explores the massive costs and challenges of sending astronauts to the red planet. US President Donald Trump last week ...

In this Podcast Extra, we examine President Donald Trump's calls for NASA to land humans on Mars. Although the White House ...

Trump's proposed 50% cut in NASA's science budget would turn the agency into an empty shell. Who's behind this?

The spectacular public feud last week between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has laid bare how much Musk may lose if ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

"I don't think it is an overstatement to say that morale among U.S.-based scientists is at an all-time low." When you ...

The motive seems to be discontent about the outsized influence that Musk has had on the White House and a desire to take him ...

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to tap the private sector to pave the way for human missions to Mars in a proposal that ...

For all the insults that Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump traded on Thursday, don’t be surprised if they make up again days from now.

"To decide not to return them, or to put it off to an indefinite future time with human missions would be to take a major step back in exploring the solar system and the universe and in continuing to ...