Wednesday, April 30

Great Image: The Curiosity Rover From Above

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In the image above from earlier this month, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is looking down on Mars' surface and caught a shot of the ...
Sunday, April 27

Kepler-186f: Finding the Needle in a Haystack of Data

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The recent announcement that Kepler located an Earth-like planet 500 light years away was the product of detailed research on a trove of d...
Monday, April 14

More Great Television on the Cosmos

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So far I am enjoying the Fox/National Geographic update on Carl Sagan's Cosmos , though the commercials can be somewhat annoying when ...
Monday, April 7

Away from the Politics II: Discoveries in the Solar System

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The past few weeks have been full of announcements on discoveries within our solar system.  Here are some of the highlights: Subsurface...
Sunday, April 6

Away from the Politics: More on the Big Bang

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While the U.S. and Russia have been tussling on a variety of issues, some solid science has been going on unabated.  For instance, last mont...
Friday, April 4

NASA Ends Connections with Russia

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It was only a matter of time.  NASA has decided to end contact with the Russians on most space ventures with the exception of the Internat...
Thursday, April 3

Elon Musk on 60 Minutes - More Than Rockets

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Sunday night's 60 Minutes had a nice piece on Elon Musk's efforts as a carmaker and rocket builder.  The uncertain nature of his ...
Monday, March 31

Great Image: Dark Barchan Dunes on Mars

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Some were curious about "canals" on Mars many years back, but what would early astronomers made of the image here?  Military fo...
Saturday, March 29

SpaceX Delays Returns to the Space Station

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After a delay earlier this month, SpaceX was scheduled to its third resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 30...
Thursday, March 27

An Expensive Miss on a Russian Rocket

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Given that we are now paying the Russians about $71 million per seat to get an astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS), maybe...
Saturday, March 22

33rd International Space Development Conference

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If you want to learn more about the "colonization, development, and capitalization of space," the National Space Society (NSS) ...
Monday, March 17

How About Russia and Mars?

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The International Space Station may still be seen as successful U.S.-Russian cooperation , what about a future Mars mission?  Dr. Robert...
Saturday, March 15

Will Ukranian Issues Impact the US-Russian Cooperation in Space?

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The recent invasion of the Crimean peninsula by Russian forces does not bode well for future cooperation between the United States and Rus...
Saturday, March 8

NASA's FY 2015 Budget Request: Good Ideas with Limited Resources

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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 ...
Monday, March 3

More Earth-Like Planets Located

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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 ...
Thursday, February 27

Great Image: Milky Way with Ariane Rocket Launch

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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...

17th International Mars Society Convention

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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...
Saturday, February 22

Russian Olympics: A New Potemkin Village

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Speaking of the Olympics , it is clear the Sochi games ending this weekend were basically a $50 billion modernized Potemkin village.  Not ...
Monday, February 17

Extra Special Medals in Sochi

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Last Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteor hitting Russia, the largest such strike since 1908 in another part...
Sunday, February 16

A New Cosmos is Coming, But Not on PBS

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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...