Mars or Bust

You may remember the IMAX film Blue Planet from 1990.  It was an fascinating adventure with views of the Earth from the NASA space shuttl...

"When I saw the U.S. film 'The Martian', which envisages China-U.S. cooperation on a Mars rescue mission under emergency ci...

A  Slate story discussing women in space shared this earlier perspective from a 1970s NASA paper: It is possible that woman, qualifie...

It is worth looking back down once in awhile on this big blue marble called Earth. We are searching the heavens to find what we already ha...

Maybe Matt Damon's character in The Martian was on to something. NASA is looking into growing potatoes on the Martian surface.  Fortun...

The Russians made an offer sometime back to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to see how much he wanted to go to the moon - $200 million to circle t...

Talk is growing concerning sending robotic missions to other planets, in this case the planets in the Alpha Centauri system.  That's...

The image above is one of 700 stitched together to show us the Milky Way galaxy in its full beauty as viewed from Earth's South...

With all the recent praise of SpaceX's successful landing of its Falcon 9 reusable rocket, let's not forget that Blue Origin als...

I have heard of beating swords into ploughshares, but converting intercontinental missiles into space rockets?  That is a new one, but I...

SpaceX has done it!  Earlier today the space company's Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed on a drone platform off the coast of Fl...

A piece by Kenneth Chang in the New York Times recently noted the asteroids in our asteroid belt would be nothing like what you saw th...

Things are getting busy up there in low Earth orbit.  The other week Orbital ATK sent up a Cygnus cargoship .  And then Russian resupply s...

"...he was not the only telescopic astronomical observer at the time, and all the discoveries he made were made independently and con...

I thought this was a fun article on a year in space from Matt Novak at Paleofuture called Everything That Happened On Earth While These G...

You may disagree with a friend about what a particular cloud formation resembles, but the image in the aurora above is pretty clear. Th...

One of the tasks of the ExoMars mission on its way to Mars is to study the methane in the Red Planet's atmosphere. Specifically, we ...

International Space Station (ISS) replenishment work continued with yesterday's launch of the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargoship. Everythin...

A new crew of one American and two Russians safely arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) over the weekend after launching from...

A new mission to Mars started Monday with the launching of the ExoMars orbiter from Kazakstan. Designed to analyze the Martian atmosphere,...