Mars or Bust

Some were curious about "canals" on Mars many years back, but what would early astronomers made of the image here?  Military fo...

After a delay earlier this month, SpaceX was scheduled to its third resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 30...

Given that we are now paying the Russians about $71 million per seat to get an astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS), maybe...

If you want to learn more about the "colonization, development, and capitalization of space," the National Space Society (NSS) ...

The International Space Station may still be seen as successful U.S.-Russian cooperation , what about a future Mars mission?  Dr. Robert...

The recent invasion of the Crimean peninsula by Russian forces does not bode well for future cooperation between the United States and Rus...

The White House released its budget request for NASA earlier in the week.  The good news is that NASA has a lot of good projects on the ...

If you are looking for a little bit of bedtime reading, you could do worse than this 138 page paper from NASA titled "Validation of ...

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...