Scientists Open Moon Rocks Locked Away Since 1972 – and Find Something Totally Unexpected

Does the Donroe Doctrine Now Extend to Outer Space?

Business is still humming across the Persian Gulf – even as bombs continue to fly: sources

Ancient Roman Machine Gun-Like Weapon May Have Damaged Pompeii’s Walls During Siege

Democrats Are on a Taxing Binge

Lunar lander developers say they are ready to meet anticipated increased NASA demand

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

War With Iran Is Testing China’s Energy Security and Reveals Cracks in the Nation’s Master Plan

Inside the Audacious Plan to Bag Asteroids and Drag Them Into Near-Orbit for Mining

Scientists Finally Solved a Massive Mystery About Static Electricity Using Acoustic Levitation

Reviving American Optimism: The Artemis Program’s Bold Leap Forward

As America turns 250, how the moon is testing our ambition again

NASA is laying the legal groundwork to build its lunar base in 2027

During a wide-ranging interview with former CBS investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman opened his mind about how the space agency intends to start building a lunar base.

Artemis II astronauts will be the first humans to get a full view this strange bullseye on the far side of the Moon

Artemis Accords nations grapple with how to handle emergencies and 'harmful interference' on the moon

Musk announces "Terafab" to internalize Tesla and SpaceX chip production

The end of the ISS is looming, and the US could have a big problem

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

Florida’s slice of NASA’s Artemis pie nets thousands of jobs, billions of dollars each year

Fetterman: Democratic Party Has No Leader, Governed By "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

Did a meteor hit her home? Houston-area woman says object crashed through roof

Who's Afraid of a Trillionaire?

Musk wades into DHS shutdown, floats paying TSA salaries

Astronomers keep finding new moons of Jupiter and Saturn

Newsom has destroyed California — but following Florida could save it

NASA Is Exploring a Reduced Role for SLS as It Gets Cozier With SpaceX

NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Strengthens U.S.-Japan Alliance for the Benefit of All Americans

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Will Trump Finish the Job in Iran?

The Economics of Regulating AI

Iran Attacks the Gulf Arabs. Will They Fight Back?

Helium-3 From the Moon: New U.S. Department of Energy Contract

The Most Savage Chuck Norris Moments From Delta Force

Chuck Norris didn't die. He chose to move on to the afterlife

SpaceX knocks Boeing from dominant role in NASA moon mission

Blue Origin joins the orbital data center race

Firefly Aerospace CEO: The moon is the ultimate high ground

SpaceX fires up next-gen 'V3' Starship for 1st time ahead of April launch

SEN JOHN KENNEDY: Democrats are gambling with our lives by not funding DHS

If I Were An Ancient Alien

Improving cartilage repair through cell therapy

White House Gets Wise on DHS

ESA to Purchase SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission to ISS

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

California’s Climate of Fuel Insecurity

Scientists Figure Out How to Use Ultrasound to Bend Electricity Around Solid Objects

How a Venomous Desert Lizard Helped Lead Scientists to Ozempic

Kristen Stewart’s ‘The Challenger’ Series Lands Greenlight At Amazon

It's time to monetise the moon! Definitely! Maybe?

Michael Mayer to Direct We Chose to Go to the Moon at Carnegie Hall

Your Steak Isn't Killing the Planet

Ehrlich's anti-human legacy

Immune cells are programmed within the body to fight cancer

Trump Hasn’t Lost His Voters Over Iran

America Bombs Iran, and Zelensky Suddenly Holds Aces

Roman artifact discovered in the Americas shatters New World history as we know it

Here's a look at all the lunar lander missions planned for 2026

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

Iran’s Ayatollahs Attack the Idea of the U.A.E.

A Glimmer of Hope in Illinois

Scientists Find Soil Fungus That Can Freeze Water and It Might Be Key to Engineering the Weather

A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid

Space Force ‘Serious’ About Planning for Cislunar Operations

How the Upcoming Moon Mission Transcends Anti-Scientific Climate Activism

Israel Is Now the Regional Hegemon Iran Wanted to Be

NASA's Isaacman latest to endorse Trump reclassifying Pluto as a planet

Why Some People Still Believe That Aliens Shaped Civilizations

Billions of Sunless Rogue Planets Could Actually Be Cradles for Life

Asteroid Ryugu Contains the Fundamental Building Blocks of Life

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

Regime Change Is Inexorable

Paul Ehrlich, the Man Who Lost an Infamous Bet

The Battle for the Strait of Hormuz

NASA Is Making A Nuclear-Powered Dragonfly Helicopter Straight Out Of Dune

100 years after Robert Goddard's 1st liquid-fueled rocket launch, NASA is using the technology to send astronauts back to the moon

California drivers say ‘yes, in my back yard’ for offshore oil

Asteroid Sample Contained All Five Fundamental Units of Life's Genetic Code

The Coming Age of Space Stations

Brain Computer Interface Enables Rapid Communication for Two People with Paralysis

How to Keep Up the Economic Pressure Against Iran

California Has an Oil and Gas Problem

The Battle for the Strait of Hormuz

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

A Hidden Bone Receptor Could Open The Door To Reversing Osteoporosis

U.S. Mine Waste Contains Enough Critical Minerals and Rare Earths to Easily End Imports. But Tapping into These Resources Is Anything but Easy

Researchers use sunlight to turn plastic waste into vinegar

Trump briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay — and president has priceless reaction

Trump's NASA chief Jared Isaacman reveals why Pluto should be a planet in plan to make it 'great again'

OSTP taking on space policy coordination work in place of National Space Council

I read two books at the tender age of 13 that influenced my thinking in subsequent years. One was The Diary of Anne Frank which informed my knowledge of the human cost of the Holocaust and led, recently, to my alternate history story, The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted.

The other book was The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, the premise of which was that overpopulation would outstrip the world's ability to sustain human life, resulting in catastrophe. My thinking was that instead of drastic limits on growth we should seek resources beyond the Earth.

In any case, as I note in Paul Ehrlich proves the prophets of doom are wrong once again, The Population Bomb has turned into a population fizzle, with human ingenuity making up the slack of resources. Ehrlich inspired a lot of unwise policies, including China's one child policy.

in any case, Ehrlich has finally done his bit to reduced the Earth's population and has died.

Mark R. Whittington articles

Mark R. Whittington Books

NASA “cultivates” viruses in space and, upon bringing them back to Earth, discovers that they have become more effective

The Inevitability of Self-Driving Cars

Truman, The Bomb and Free Will

Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

Trump administration orders restart of oil drilling along California coast amid Iran war

A Centenary for Rocket Science

China Has a Lot to Lose in the U.S.-Israel War on Iran

Put Chuck Schumer on TSA Duty

The Real Nuclear History of Iran

Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away

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

FAA Approves a Massive Pilot Program That Will Let Electric Air Taxis Fly Across 26 States as Early as This Summer

Climate Scientists Used the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers to Find Out if Middle Earth and Westeros Could Actually Exist

Scientists Want to Build Martian Homes Using Living Bacteria and Astronaut Urine

US Intel Showed Even Khamenei Thought Nepo Babytollah Was Incompetent

Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles; Concept Art Revealed

How Congress became NASA’s partner for the Artemis return to the moon

The NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026 has passed the Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). When one looks over its contents, one has to wonder what a difference 16 years makes.

The Keystone XL pipeline could come back from the dead in a new form

To save the West, remember what Romans taught us

This weird-looking humanoid robot could help China conquer the moon: scientists

Recycled human waste could turn the dust on Mars and the Moon into fertile soil for crops

China is developing low-cost lunar cargo options for its expanding moon program

Something May Be Scrambling Alien Messages, NASA-Funded Research Finds

UAE Nears Historic Moon Mission As Rashid Rover 2 Heads To US For Launch Preparations Khaleej Times

The Coming Revolution Down South

I Traveled Across The Globe To Fact-Check An Oscar-Winning Documentary. Here’s What I Found.

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

NASA begins building nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone for 2028 launch to Saturn moon Titan

Democrat Senator Suddenly Open to DHS Funding After Michigan Synagogue Attack

Pravda and the Democrats Are Lying: Operation Epic Fury Strategy Is Brilliant; UPDATE: Iran Opens Strait

Will apologies to General Sherman, Henry Clay Work, and my Civil War ancestors.

Marching through Iran

Starliner and Artemis: commercial label vs. commercial discipline

New strategy intercepts pancreatic cancer by eliminating microscopic lesions before they become cancer

Arm the Iranian Resistance

Boeing Starliner : Butch Wilmore Shares Exactly What Happened As He Piloted Starliner

He Coined The Overview Effect. Now Let's Send Him To Space.

Breakthrough to Strengthen Bones Could Reverse Osteoporosis

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

From Book 1: July, 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 has triumphantly returned to Earth. In this alternate history thriller, President Richard Nixon puts into a motion a scheme to ramp up the space race to pressure the Soviets into making diplomatic and military concessions. Thus begins a story of high adventure on the final frontier and of low intrigue in the corridors of power back on Earth. It will prove to be the fulfillment of a dream for Wendy Pendleton to be the first woman to walk on the moon. It will be a nightmare for Cal Lauren, a political operative determined to stop the space race at all costs to fund the social programs he holds dear.

Children of Apollo: The Space Race Gambit continues with Children of Apollo: The Hard Road to the Stars and concludes with Children of Apollo: The First Woman on the Moon.

Energy Security for U.S. Allies, Courtesy of Alaska

An Easy Fix to a Clinton Energy Error

Opposing Trump Isn’t a Global Strategy