Mars or Bust

This Hubble Space Telescope image is labeled "A Day in the Lives of Galaxies" on the hubblesite.org website.  Here is the rest ...

Scientists have discovered a new Earth like planet, but do not worry - it is not Nibiru .  The new planet , dubbed Tau Ceti e, is about fo...

With all of the attention earlier this month directed at the North Korean rocket launch , most of the newspapers were ignoring a Russian r...

Earlier this month, NASA announced plans to send a new rover to Mars as well as other initiatives designed to better understand Mars and p...

On December 11, 2012, the U.S. Air force launched its X-37b unmanned shuttle on its third mission.  It is interesting how the shuttle wen...

NASA reported that the latest International Space Station (ISS) crew has safely arrived: Expedition 34 Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn, R...

It is nice to see that the United States and Russia can agree on a few things. Back in October, NASA announced plans to leave an astronaut...

I wanted to follow up on my earlier message about the end of the world, as foretold by the Mayans.  Here is what the U.S. Government rel...

With North Korea threatening to launch another rocket to place a satellite into orbit, are we looking at a future with North Korean outpos...

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...