DHS Turns South Park Smear of ICE Agents Into Epic Recruiting Ad

CBS host questions Trump admin plans to create moon base, warns of new 'age of colonialism'

Scientists Were Wrong: Apollo 16 Rocks Rewrite the Story of the Moon’s Exosphere

What a nuclear reactor on the Moon really means for NASA’s future

Could Lithium Explain — and Treat — Alzheimer’s Disease?

Is Iran running out of water?

Elephants Use Dozens of Gestures to Ask for Apples and Scientists Say That’s No Accident

The Texas Walkout: All Hat, No Cattle?

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Gerrymandering and JB Pritzker’s Inferno

Kill Jews, Get Your Own State

No Alzheimer’s Drug for Old Men?

80 Years Later: The Case For Hiroshima

NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations

Neil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on plans for a moon-based nuclear reactor

The California Coastal Commission’s fight with Elon Musk’s SpaceX is back on

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory: the future (or end) of NASA science

Congress Passes Small Spending Cut, Republic Survives

Trump, the Working Class and Social Order

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

The Scholar Who Saw Zohran Mamdani Coming in 2003

Britain Is on the Verge of Regime Change

Kill Jews, Get Your Own State

Trump’s first-term space policy was great, but now he’s dropping the ball

Lockheed Martin targets 2028 demo of space-based missile interceptors

The Humans Where The Heroes Of Avatar All Along

Death rates from cardiovascular disease have fallen dramatically — what were the breakthroughs behind this?

Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

This mRNA HIV Vaccine Produces the Virus-Fighting Antibodies That Have Eluded Researchers for 40 Years

Hamas Starves Jews and Palestinians, and Israel Gets Blamed

Texas Reopens the Gerrymander Wars

Poll: Most Palestinians Say No to Peace If It Means Weakening Hamas

Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to remove quorum-breaking Texas Democrats from office

Mayo Clinic researchers find “sugar coating” cells can protect those typically destroyed in type 1 diabetes

Andrew Cuomo Can Still Save New York City

AI’s Overlooked $97 Billion Contribution to the Economy

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

Ukrainians’ Anticorruption Victory

Making a Palestinian State Less Likely

Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock

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Support for NASA returning to the moon and going to Mars is surging

A recent poll conducted by CBS News provides an encouraging look into public support for the Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon and eventually send humans to Mars.

Texas House advances newly drawn congressional map that favors GOP

Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as top DC prosecutor

Palestinian Terrorists Release Videos of Hostages Being Starved, Tormented, Digging Own Grave

Why Materialism Can't Explain the Mind: Journalist Denyse O'Leary

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

Things Worth Remembering: How P.J. O’Rourke Skewered the Swamp

Understanding the SpaceX-Era Economy

Space program funding is good news for Louisiana and Gulf Coast

The terrible Hamas lie that ‘the Jews did this’ spreads around the world

Artemis II on track for moon trip as early as February 2026

SpaceX just launched disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station

Senators raise NASA funding concerns in letter to Duffy

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Roscosmos celebrates meeting of agency leaders that NASA ignored

Sudan’s Brutal, Forgotten War

Trump’s Nuclear Submarine Message to Russia

Here is an archive of my most recent appearance on The Space Show podcast

New drug could halt Alzheimer’s

Russia's Roscosmos, NASA agree to extend ISS operations until 2028

Trump’s man in NASA

Trump’s Historic Energy Deal with Europe Proves U.S. Energy Dominance

The Space Station’s Russian Segment Won’t Stop Leaking Air

A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned

Lab-Grown Beef Now Has Real Muscle Fibers and It’s One Step Closer to Burgers With No Slaughter

The Rise of the Climate Right

A Nixonian Trump Offer to China?

This city could run dry ‘within weeks’ as it grapples with an acute water crisis

First thing when the Shah is restored, bring in Israeli water experts to start fixing the problem.

NASA Locked Them Up for a Year to Simulate Life on Mars. Today, They Reveal What They Did With Their Time: A Lot of PS4 Gaming

The Push For a Sustainable Lunar Economy

How the forces of militant Islam precipitated the English Civil War and changed England forever

Space Policy Edition: Are Democrats falling behind on space policy?

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How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

Abundance in Orbit—The Case for Democrats Reclaiming NASA's Bold Vision

The First Soda in Space: When NASA Got Caught Up in the Cola Wars

Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant

We’re going back to the Moon during Trump’s presidency, acting NASA administrator says

Australia’s first orbital-class rocket stalled seconds after liftoff

India and US launch 'first-of-its-kind' satellite

What if the Secret to Sustainable Cities Was Buried in Roman Cement?

Solid-State Batteries Charge in 3 Minutes, Offer Nearly Double the Range, and Never Catch Fire. So Why Aren’t They In Your Phones and Cars Yet?

A Revolutionary Reflection

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Generation Z Walks Into a Bar—and Grows Up

The Specter of Chaos in New York

Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies

WHY COMMERCIAL SPACE SHOULD LEAD THE U.S. RETURN TO THE MOON

The United States Should Act Now to Mitigate Conflict Escalation on the Moon

SpaceX moves Starship to launch pad for testing ahead of Flight 10

Acting NASA administrator to hold talks with Russian counterpart on space issues

What If We Built Our Skyscrapers from Wood? It’s Just Crazy Enough to Work (And Good for the Planet)

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Marriage Makes a Comeback

A Peace Deal for Armenia and Azerbaijan

Climate Regulation Liberation Day

Russia's Roscosmos, NASA to hold first in-person talks at heads level since 2018, Russia says

Firefly Awarded $177 Million NASA Contract for Mission to the Moon’s South Pole

Inspiring Star Trek and NASA

Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek #CommissionEarned

Small Modular Reactors are a game-changer for Africa and the world

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

The first company to complete a fully successful lunar landing is going public

First Lunar Radio Telescope on the Moon’s Far Side Will Revolutionize Space Science

Leonard David: America must get back to the Moon

SpaceX Unveils New Version of Mars-Bound Starship

Congress’s NASA and NSF Budgets Counter Trump, Fund Science

Trump isn't gutting Medicaid and food stamps. He's fixing our broken welfare system

The Bad Science and Bad Policy at the Heart of the Climate Movement

Why You May Get Future Vaccines Via Dental Floss

Athens Is Tapping a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Aqueduct To Help Survive a Megadrought

Super Robot Threatens Washington

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

How an ‘America First’ Policy Can Benefit U.S. Allies

Trump and the EU Dodge a Trade War

Trump’s New Timeline for Putin