This peculiar coincidence sent the internet into overdrive, with netizens offering everything from humour to speculation.

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are creating a “Golden Age of Space Exploration.”

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Deputy oppostition leader Sussan Ley praised Australia's colonial history as a successful "experiment" while criticising Invasion Day rallies.

Mr Musk is in charge of Mr Trump's newly created Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE). Elon Musk's starring role in the new Donald Trump administration was confirmed as he appeared front and centre of his inauguration proceedings - and witnessed him pledge a mission to Mars.

Humanity may soon become a space-conquering race—at least according to President Trump and Elon Musk. In what’s sure to be one of the most talked about segments of Trump’s inauguration speech, the Head of State vowed to “plant the stars and straps on the planet Mars” and expand the nation’s territory.

Sussan Ley says Australia Day is a day of celebration, likening the arrival of the British First Fleet to Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars.

In what could be compared to Elon Musk’s Space X’s efforts to build a new colony on Mars, men in boats arrived on the edge of the known world to embark on that new experiment."

Trump says we're going to Mars. He may be making it harder to get there. President Donald Trump says we’re going to Mars, but don’t start packing your bags just yet. There are a lot of reasons to doubt that his plans will get us to the Red Planet, and he may even put us further behind schedule.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Jan. 16. The second stage with the Blue Ring payload successfully reached orbit. However, an attempt to land the first stage on a drone ship failed.