Mars or Bust

The 3rd International Space Station Research and Development Conference takes place in Chicago next month.  From June 17-19, 2014, partic...

Maybe we need Hollywood to help us to dream.  Whether it is the hopeful future portrayed by Star Trek , the encounter with a alien race in...

  The composite image above shows the Moon Saturn Occultation from May 14th.  Created by amateur astronomer Paul Steward (see more of ...

PBS has created a short video to discuss the life expectancy of the Earth and the universe itself.  The 5 and a half minute video is calle...

If you want to see how the universe expanded into what we see today, or at least see a computer simulation of this process, you shoul...

Last week we saw the return of three of the crew from the International Space Station (ISS) after 188 days in space. The Russian Soyuz spa...

I can understand that we are dependent on the Russians for a lift to the International Space Station (ISS) while we rebuild our spacefarin...

Today's homepage image on Bing was an image of Saturn taken by the Cassini probe.  I cannot remember the last time Bing highlighted an...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...