Spacefaring civilizations are usually imagined as technological giants, centuries or millennia beyond anything humanity has ...

In Verne’s novel, the moonshot is explicitly proposed as a nationalist project, even as it also becomes a pinnacle of human achievement that unifies the world. The speech in which it is proposed is ...

Just a handful of people have spent a consecutive year or more in space. But NASA aims to up that timeframe drastically with its goal of sending astronauts to Mars—a round trip estimated to take ...

In lieu of cooperation, perhaps friendly competition between the spacefaring superpowers can ensure exploration benefits humankind In an ideal world, China and the United States, the two pre-eminent ...

NASA’s Artemis II is less about America’s return to the Moon and more about the world’s entry into a new era of space exploration. For India, the message is clear: the window of opportunity is open, b ...

HPP reviews Sigma Star Saga DX, a unique mix of top-down and Shmup set against the backdrop of a spacefaring drama. A ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) With the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission on April 1, 2026, human beings ...