Mars or Bust

With the recent broadcast on PBS of Ken Burn's latest documentary The Dust Bowl , I was reminded of the pitfalls of living on the surf...

Here is a terrific image of a black hole at the center of Centaurus A, a nearby galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus, taken by the Chand...

Do you remember the story about those two telescopes the National Reconnaissance Office provided to NASA earlier this year?  Well, NASA i...

In about a month's time, or on December 21, 2012, to be exact, the world is supposed to end.  I just wanted to remind everyone again tha...

Okay, I am a few days late since his birthday was last Friday (November 9), but I did not want the occasion to pass without a quick note. ...

Last month, Senator Coburn recently released his 2012 Waste Book , a government waste-watching effort of his for many years running. The S...

The image at right, titled the Ant Nebula, was first captured in 1997 by the Hubble Space Telescope and is available on Hubblesite.org .  ...

We have learned more about President Kennedy now that we have greater access to his secret tapings from the Oval Office.  One quote in par...

While Pluto might no longer be considered a planet, NASA still plans to visit the dwarf planet via New Horizons in July 2015.  Launched i...

I have been linking my site to the Alliance to Rescue Civilization (ARC) for some time now but the site has been inactive for years.  For e...

NASA reported last week that the Swift satellite has detected X-rays from a new black hole close to the center of our Milky Way galaxy.  A...

After a rough start, the SpaceX Dragon capsule has reached the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday morning with new supplies.  Unl...

Last month NPR's Science Friday program had an interesting story on the Curiosity mission, noting how the craft may have been contami...

Today is the last day to volunteer as a crew member for The Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station , a project that has been und...

More and more I find the beauty of space is more astounding than any artist can imagine here on Earth.  To the right is a fascinating NASA...

I am not so sure the accomplished very much with our current International Space Station, and yet NASA is now proposing a second station. ...

Last week's piece by New York Time's David Brooks, Temerity at the Top , was an interesting article on why America needs more Elo...

Just as astronomy has benefited from private citizens scanning the heavens with their own telescopes or offering some of their computer ca...

  Given all the press criticizing India's plan to visit Mars, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh defending his nation's d...

If you have a few minutes, you should watch the fascinating video from TED where George Dyson describes Project Orion, a planned mission ...