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"Intensive scientific exploration of Antarctica has been underway for about 70 years and it is still the only continent on ...

As another period of dangerous summer heat approaches in the United Kingdom, British designer Philip Pauley is drawing ...

Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), better known as SpaceX, has grand ambitions to eventually help mankind colonize Mars, and much of the attention surrounding the company is, ...

This video explores the gap between reaching Mars and actually building a human life there. It argues that the real challenge begins after touchdown: radiation, dust, weak gravity, isolation, medical ...

It was America’s bicentennial, July 4, 1976, and NASA was hoping not to see fireworks. After a 10-month traverse through space, the Viking 1 lander was ready to become the first spacecraft to operate ...

SpaceX incentivizes Musk to create a million-person colony on Mars. But in his lifetime, that’s not realistic.

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...