Mars or Bust

A recent article in Scientific American titled "Oh the Placed we Won't Go," had a quote from the Planetary Society's c...

Monday was a great day for Blue Origin, a small rocket company funded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos. The firm successfully landed its BE-3 re...

Following up on my earlier post  about the demise of  Phobos, some scientists are now speculating that the "moon" may break apar...

It is pretty amazing to see the United Launch Alliance (ULA) walk away from a US Air Force contact, basically handing it over to SpaceX...

Last week on the Science Channel's new series  Secret Space Escapes   (November 10) we learned more about a fire aboard Russia's M...

You may have heard Donald Trumps recent statement to a 10 year-old concerning the future of NASA and our space program.  It was not very i...

It's hard to believe a Discovery Channel program on mummies led to the uncovering of a mysterious 8,000 year-old civilization on th...

Are we looking at a doomed "moon" of Mars? NASA scientists believe the marks seen above relate to tidal forces as Mars attempts...

Tass reported six women recently completed a simulated moon mission over nine days. The project at the  Russian Institute of Biomedical P...

There has been a lot of talk about EXIM and the space industry, but what does this entity do?  It is actually a bank and arm of government...

While last month marked release of The Martian, it is worth remembering that missions to Mars (and mission failures) have been a real...

Time flies when you are in Earth orbit, or so it seems. This week (November 2nd) marks the 15th year humans have continuously occupied  th...

"At a time of widespread pessimism both at home and abroad, a commitment to an ambitious program of space exploration could provide ...

This is more of a "great artist image" of two kissing stars imagined from observations by the European Space Agency (ESO) Very ...

The Planetary Society and Symphony of Science put together an inspiring video called Beyond the Horizon to highlight how we need to be ...

In December we should see SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket back on the launch pad blasting two commercial satellites into orbit. This will b...

The paper from the Royal Astronomical Society is pretty straightforward regarding  the fluctuating light around a distant exoplanet c...

NASA’s Launch Services Program recently awarded what are called Venture Class Launch Services  contracts to three private companies t...

It is bad enough that Russian military is operating dangerously close to NATO airspace and neutral Scandinavian airports, and now operatin...

NASA provided more news last week about Pluto, the mysterious dwarf planet that is now starting to share its secrets. The latest discove...