Not using such US-centric and colonisation/genocide-invoking historical metaphors would be a better start,’ British scholar says.

A robotic colony on Mars might seem like far-fetched science fiction, but so was the Moonshot. American Exceptionalism will rise again.

If everything goes according to plan, in just over two years we should see humans back on the Moon. That has been the goal of NASA over the last several years, a goal that seems now a lot more uncertain than previously thought.

Musk has long envisioned colonists on Mars. This seems like a fever dream, but it recently featured in Trump’s inaugural speech. Trump said that the U.S. will plant the Stars and Stripes on Mars and “We will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars.”

NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a distraction."

President Trump says we are going to Mars, and his friend Elon Musk has demonstrated a capacity to make it happen.

Are Donald Trump’s threats against Panama and Greenland serious or just grandiose bluster? As an historian, I take their implications seriously, and I hope all conscientious Americans do so as well, writes guest columnist Claudia Boatright,