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Donald Trump is our planet's number one obstacle to following up on NASA's blockbuster findings about life on Mars.

Now That NASA Found Signs of Life on Mars, It’s Clear Trump Made a Massive Error

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of lauding its scientists, NASA's acting leader praised Trump during an announcement about the potential discovery of life on Mars.

NASA Announces Possible Discovery of Life on Mars by Comically Sucking Up to Trump

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced that its Perseverance Mars rover spotted "potential biosignatures" in an ancient dry riverbed last year.

NASA Says Its Mars Rover Has Detected Possible Signs of Life on the Red Planet

By Victor Tangermann

Seismic data collected by the NASA Insight lander point to huge foreign objects lodged in the mantle of Mars from billions of years ago.

NASA Finds Evidence That Mars Devoured Huge Chunks of Other Planets

By Frank Landymore

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

By Jon Christian

Each of SpaceX's enormous Starship explosions is costing the private space company an enormous amount of money.

SpaceX Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money Every Time One of Its Starships Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

AeroVironment and NASA's JPL have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars.

Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. But will it ever work?

Elon Now Facing the Possibility That SpaceX Will Never Get Starship Working

By Victor Tangermann

What is by far the largest meteorite from Mars ever found on Earth has been bought by an anonymous collector.

Scientists Saddened as World’s Largest Mars Rock Is Sold at Auction

By Frank Landymore

The Trump's administration's proposed NASA budget calls to end operations of several spacecraft currently orbiting Mars for no reason.

Trump Wants to Shut Down Several Perfectly Good Spacecraft Orbiting Mars for No Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Terraforming Mars could be as easy as one, two, three, we proclaim, reclined in our cushy very-much-on-Earth armchairs.

Scientists Reveal Easy Three-Step Plan to Terraform Mars

By Frank Landymore

The founder of the Mars Society has accused SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of derailing existing plans to explore and visit the Red Planet.

Elon Musk’s “Hubris and Arrogance” Are Ruining Our Chances of Actually Getting to Mars, Says Leading Expert

By Victor Tangermann

Jared Isaacman, NASA's candidate for administrator, handpicked by Elon Musk, has been thrown under the bus by the Trump administration.

Trump Just Kicked Elon Musk’s Hand-Picked NASA Head to the Curb

By Victor Tangermann

NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX is, but that doesn't mean the US government isn't funding both.

If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program

Elon Boasts of Huge Starship Improvements Immediately Before It Blows Up Spectacularly

Elon Boasts of Huge Starship Improvements Immediately Before It Blows Up Spectacularly

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientists concluded that dark streaks spotted on the surface of Mars didn't have anything to do with flowing water.

Scientists Thought They Had Spotted Flowing Water on Mars. It Turned Out to Be Something Else Entirely.

By Victor Tangermann