Mars or Bust

The US Postal Service is commemorating New Horizon's flyby of Pluto with a new forever stamp to be issued in 2016.  A nice idea....

Like the movies, missions sometimes fall apart. Luckily, this Martian problem was detected on Earth where repairs are easier.   The...

SpaceX has succeeded in its attempt to safely land a Falcon 9 rocket after it put communication satellites into orbit, creating the first ...

I guess NASA misses The Martian , because it like to tie into popular culture.  Well, Star Wars is here and now the Agency has a new...

Adam Cole on NPR had a recent piece that started in this way: On Monday, NASA started accepting applications for its new class of astr...

I will never tire of the lunar views of Earth. The recent image above comes from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in 2...

The Orlando Sentinel recently reported on a distant object that appears to be in our solar system, yet its identity is unclear and it ...

With the new Federal budget opening the door again to the previously banned Russian RD-180 rocket engine, Senator McCain, Chairman of the...

If you think the future entails bigger brains, SyFy has other ideas. In tonight's new series  The Expanse   you learn the future depe...

“ It was thought that the reliability of the Kepler exoplanets detection was very good – between 10 and 20% of them were not planets. Ou...

NASA's New Horizons images of Pluto only become more stunning.  The image above shows mountains abutting a Sputnik Planum.  Did any...

The Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki, meaning "dawn" in Japanese, was successfully inserted into orbit above Venus earlier this wee...

Orbital ATK is back after a rough year. The successful Sunday launch of the Cygnus capsule aboard an Atlas V rocket put the company back...

 Here is a recent tweet by Mr. Bezos: @ JeffBezos Finally trashed by @ realDonaldTrump . Will still reserve him a seat on the Blue Or...

Via radio signals, scientists have detected a black hole swallowing a star similar to our sun.  A team of astrophysicists, led by a Johns ...

NASA is not the only space Agency facing budget cuts. Russia too has limited resources in the space arena. The Moscow Times recently r...

It appears a Johns Hopkins University physicist just located the crash site of the Apollo 16 third-stage booster.  Until now, NASA had no...

  This view of Bombetoka Bay, Madagascar, taken by NASA's TERRA satellite, shows again the magic of looking back at our amazing plan...

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...