Robert Zubrin, Author at SpaceNews

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova in a faraway spiral galaxy. Credit: NASA STSCI

Trump assaults American space science

by Robert Zubrin May 9, 2025May 6, 2025

Massive cuts are focused on the most productive part of NASA

Photo showing multiple vials of Martian samples left on the planet's surface.

A practical approach to the Mars Sample Return mission

by Robert Zubrin May 6, 2024May 6, 2024

Rethink the Mars Program

by Robert Zubrin December 7, 2023December 7, 2023

Civil

Op-ed | Build a Robot Base on Mars

by Robert Zubrin April 7, 2021January 23, 2023

Starship lunar lander

Op-ed | Toward a coherent Artemis plan

by Robert Zubrin May 18, 2020January 24, 2023

From the Magazine

Op-ed | Making the moon and Mars possible

by Robert Zubrin July 18, 2019January 23, 2023

From the Magazine

Op-ed | Lunar Gateway or Moon Direct?

by Robert Zubrin April 17, 2019January 23, 2023

Op-ed | Moon Direct: How to build a moonbase in four years

by Robert Zubrin March 30, 2018January 23, 2023

Op-ed | Misdirection on Mars

by Robert Zubrin May 4, 2015January 23, 2023

Op-Ed | U.S. Space Supremacy Now Critical

by Robert Zubrin January 22, 2015January 30, 2023

Stellar Dispatch

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