Mars or Bust

I was glad to read that the various man-made Martian satellites survived the recent comet flyby (it helps that NASA had plenty of warning...

This Hubble Space Telescope image of a nebula shows emerging stars, fast-burning stars exhausting their fuel, and even planets trying to ...

Caleb Scharf, British-born astronomer and director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, has written a story about ou...

Let's hope we never read this headline, and it may be thanks to MIT students who identified a short-coming in the Dutch Mars One miss...

Should we still be having this argument about whether or not Pluto is a planet? Is this a scientific duel, or more the earlier generation ...

Russia is talking about a manned mission to the moon by 2030, and I like the idea if Putin goes on the spacecraft. Why settle for the C...

From October 4th to 10th is World Space Week , designated as such by the United Nations since 1999.  And why these dates?  Because October...

"The bottom line of this is something like one in five of all stars may have an analog to Earth. That's a lot of habitable world...

With NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft arriving at Mars earlier this week, and now India's Mars Or...

Did NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden make the following statements? -- The moon is moon as “useless” and “a barren eyesore."...

You have only a few days to bid on articles from science fiction writer Ray Bradbury's past.  Bradbury, who passed away in 2012, l...

The above image is an artist's impression of a huge black hole five times larger than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way si...

As SpaceX's Dragon heads back to the International Space Station today with necessary supplies, such as spacesuit batteries and 3D pr...

Russia has done it again. It is purposely poking the U.S. and Europe as it stated it plans to train its cosmonauts in Crimea, the occupied...

Earlier this month Russia lost a military spy satellite over the United States, though it appears the Russians did not want to admit this...

After two years, the Curiosity rover is now approaching Mount Sharp in Gale Crater, its primary mission site.  While it has conducted othe...

In a video that includes the image above, International Space Station crew members Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio illustrate a number ...

With all the talk of exoplanets, we sometimes forget how little we know about the planets and moons in our own solar system.  For exampl...

Earlier this summer 60 Minutes re-aired a nice segment on the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) located in Chile.  The ...

SpaceX wasn't the only space company with rocket issues last week.  The French company Arianespace's launch from South America was...