Mars or Bust

I have seen David A. Hardy's art in The Planetary Society's magazine The Planetary Report , so I decided to check out his webpag...

Yesterday (May 22nd), at 3:44 am EST, SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for a rendezvou...

Each NASA space mission needed a patch to remember the event, and SpaceX is no different.  Above is the official patch for the latest (del...

You may remember my earlier piece about the 10 Biggest Science Stories , including this story: Flying faster than the speed of light jus...

On April 30, SpaceX successfully completed a 2 second static fire the Falcon 9's engines in preparation for the upcoming launch. Sp...

This photo, first shared by Space.com , was taken by Stefano De Rosa on December 4, 2011 outside the Basilica of Superga on the hills out...

As we contemplate the latest race to the moon and potential plans for a moon base (yes, as discussed by Newt Gingrich ), maybe we need to ...

I wanted to revisit my earlier story on the failed Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, since I left the origin of the problems as a mystery.  In...

Here is another great image from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory :    The double cluster NGC 1850 lies in a neighboring satellit...

This past week saw the Space Shuttle Discovery flying over Washington, D.C. , on its way to the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Ce...

Is anyone else concerned that our $100 billion International Space Station (ISS) could have been gold-plated space debris last weekend?  It...

With all of the predictions (and bad films ) concerning the destruction of Earth in 2012, I am happy to report we have survived the first th...

Here is another great image from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory : This is an artist's rendition of the one-million-year-old star...

In a previous post , I discussed China's efforts to build its own space station.   But now I am wondering if they need to go to all th...

Of course, NASA may not be sending humans to Europa anytime soon (nor anywhere else), but Hollywood believes Europa may be a good backdro...

The NASA's 2013 budget was recently released and, surprise of surprises, Mars is on the cutting table.  It is not all bad news since th...

Here is a great image from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory : This artist concept depicts a quadruple-star system called HD 98800. Th...

A recent issue of Science News noted how scientists are now estimating that the Milky Way galaxy has 100 billion planets or more.  This wor...

We have heard a number of theories about comets and meteorites seeding life here on earth, and recently we saw even more evidence of outside...