Mars or Bust

You cannot do much better than this fantastic view of the Milky Way, meteor streak, and Ariane rocket plume.  The image is from NASA's...

If you are looking for more information on Mars, from past rover programs to ideas for future settlements, you may want to attend the 17th...

Speaking of the Olympics , it is clear the Sochi games ending this weekend were basically a $50 billion modernized Potemkin village.  Not ...

Last Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteor hitting Russia, the largest such strike since 1908 in another part...

Like millions of people, I am a fan of Carl Sagan's Cosmos series from 1980.  The program, Cosmos: A Personal Journey , brought a fas...

Reports of the little guy's death were premature.  China's Moon rover, the Jade Rabbit, is showing signs of life again.  On Thursd...

After discussing Kepler in my recent post , I wanted to learn more about the status of the Kepler mission.  You can find numerous papers f...

Earlier this week NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported on a new impact crater on Mars.  The crater was spotted last November usi...

After a successful landing on the moon last December, the Chinese rover Yutu ("Jade Rabbit') has experienced some "mec...

The image above is from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website and represents the combination of galaxies, a process that will co...

With the Curiosity rover getting all of the attention these days, it was only a matter of time before the older Opportunity rover would ...

Earlier this month PBS's NOVA had an good program on exoplanets called Alien Planets Revealed .  You can still view the show on NOV...

At a time when NASA is struggling to find the necessary funds to cover planned space missions, why is the Agency spending $350 million on ...

The White House recently announced that the International Space Station (ISS), set to be decommissioned in 2020, will now get an extra 4 ...

Like the wrecked Mayan remains one finds centuries later in the Latin American jungle, this Bloomington, Indiana, space observatory repr...

This is the time of year to highlight some of the great discoveries of the last year, and we have plenty to ponder.  CBS news highlights...

Below is NASA’s Earth Observatory description of this ISS photo: Nelson Mandela took the long view of South Africa. He saw the potenti...

NASA has issued an interesting video that recreates the famous Apollo 8 “Earthrise” photography that occurred this Christmas week 45 ...

Luckily, NASA is going into the new year with a functional International Space Station (ISS).  The recent space walks were a success (se...

With all the drama related to repairs to the International Space Station (ISS) , one can see NASA finally trumping Hollywood.  While we...