Mars or Bust

The pictures are starting to come in from MESSENGER (see my earlier story ).  The orbiting spacecraft obtained this shot of Mercury's su...

And now to lighten things a little.  We have all read science fiction stories of civilizations on Mars, such as Ray Bradbury's Martian C...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured something fascinating on Saturn's largest moon - rain showers .  However, Titan's ra...

On St. Patrick's Day NASA's luck was on full display with the successful placement of the MESSENGER spacecraft into Mercury's or...

With the final mission of the Discovery Space Shuttle and its 27 years of service in our space program, we are looking at mothballing a big...

Maybe research on living in space can be done in places other than the International Space Station, such as that cave up the road.  A recent...

This has not been a good year for public funding of anything, and NASA is no exception.  So in addition to a somewhat rudderless mission w...

This past week represents the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, a disaster that struck at the core of the American spirit. It ...

Mental Floss magazine had an interesting article in a recent issue discussing items left behind on the moon by the astronauts, including (1...

Earlier today Space X's  Dragon spacecraft had a very successful launch, orbit, and landing.  This is the beginning of what NASA hope...

It was certainly a fascinating week in terms of life on other planets and even life in other universes.  In terms of the first item, NASA a...

With the elections only a two days away, I started to think about intelligent life elsewhere (if only because I was wondering about its pres...

I am very happy, like everyone else, that the Chilean miners were safely brought to the surface after the mine collapse.  And the United St...

Just yesterday, Miles O'Brien from This Week in Space announced the end of his podcast show.  I wrote about this show last January when...

NASA recently started a partnership with Flickr Commons, called NASA on the Commons , that expands public access to the Agency's many ph...

This new 5-episode series from the Science Channel is ending this week, but I highly recommend "Wonders of the Solar System" to a...

NASA is seeking out museums and other parties that are willing to display the retired shuttles.  The only hitch is that you need to pay abou...

This weekend we had two astronauts on a space walk to repair one of two cooling pumps in the American sector of the International Space Stat...

I was going through some earlier stories in the The Planetary Report , the journal of the Planetary Society , and came across a speech from ...

The news about the NASA Administrator is not good.  I have read of at least three investigations looking into Administrator Charles Bolden...