Returning to the moon and building a base will pale in comparison to what we will be capable of accomplishing in the years ahead,” Isaacman said.

Before the first human boot sinks into Martian dust, an army of machines will have already been at work for years, testing the air, carving out shelter and assembling the hardware that keeps people alive. Around the world, space agencies and private ...

For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never quite leaving the laboratory. That changes in 2028.

We will soon get to a point where the human race will expand to other celestial bodies in the solar system. The prime targets for colonization are the Moon and Mars, and plans are already being drafted to create everything that's needed to support human life.

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, what happened to the Red Planet, and could it happen to ...