Mars or Bust

Now that a few weeks have passed, it is easier to see what Christopher Nolan created in his film Interstellar .  Beware readers that I ma...

With other things happening around the solar system, we can forget about the ongoing mission of NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it orbit...

Lunar Mission Ltd. is looking for investors via Kickstarter for a lunar mission.  Once funded, in about 10 years time Lunar Mission One w...

Russia's leader Vladimir Putin left the G-20 Summit in Australia earlier than expected last weekend after a number of world leaders ma...

The Planetary Society's website has a helpful recommended reading list on Mars.  Here are some of the books recommended under fiction...

To date most of the stories on the Orbital Sciences' explosion last month placed blame on the Soviet-era engines in the Antares rocket...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) little Philae has gone to sleep for the moment on the surface of Comet 67p, but the very fact it is ...

With all the fascinating images in the movie Interstellar , we could forget that nature itself it stunningly beautiful all by itself, as d...

After a 10 year trip, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft will deploy its probe called Philae to the surface of Comet...

While the private space industry is still focused on the two failures last week, the Chinese government has plenty to celebrate after a...

This week on the Discovery Channel you can learn more about the ideas that went into making the current film Interstellar . The progra...

"These people have been trained and given the great historical value of being the first human beings in history to occupy anoth...

This has not been a good week for the private sector space industry.  Earlier today, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed in the Cal...

Orbital Sciences' third resupply mission to the International Space Station ended in disaster earlier today as the rocket exploded ...

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...