Mars or Bust

Who could argue with an itinerary that puts you in Hawaii for a year? Add a nice secluded location with beautiful views. And then throw in...

NASA reported that the Juno spacecraft completed its first of 36 planned flybys of Jupiter. Scott Bolton,  principal investigator ...

"I  wouldn’t say we have a Third World space program... We have very talented and capable people." -- Senator Rubio contra...

It appears we overlooked our nearest neighboring star, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, as a potential host of planets. Until now. A ...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Flying Bum! Okay, it's a crashing Bum in what was only the second maiden flight of this ...

If you were planning to attend the 2016 Mars Society Convention (or have yet to decide) you can watch a debate on the Asteroid Redirect Mi...

If you too are a fan of Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey , you should enjoy this 1976 recording of Arthur C. Clarke...

NASA's Curiosity recently provided us with another impressive view of the Martian surface.  Here is the story from NASA : This 360-...

Gliese 1132b, which is about 1.2 times the size of Earth, orbits the red dwarf star GJ 1132, which itself is only about 20 percent the size...

"Among the myths we have used to name and claim the heavens is Cassiopeia, a constellation in the northern hemisphere. It is named...

It was 40 years ago this summer that the Viking 1 and 2 missions landed on Mars (the first landing on July 20, 1976 (Viking 1) and the sec...

What is 200 kilometers in diameter, located outside the plane of the solar system, and orbits the sun is a direction opposed to everythi...

It sounds like the name of a planet near Vulcan, but Perseids is the name of the meteor shower peeking this evening over the northern he...

I am reading news reports that North Korea would like to send a mission to the Moon within 10 years. Is this idea similar to the plot...

The Smithsonian Institute made a film showing the cleaning process the curators went through before displaying the original model of the...

The image above of the Orion Nebula was captured by Josh Borup at the picket post mountain trail head in the Arizon desert during a new mo...

I am happy to read that a private company has permission to land a rover on the Moon. Earlier this week, the Federal Aviation Administr...

Have you heard if Luca? It stands for the  Last Universal Common Ancestor and existed when the Earth was only 560 million years old. A...

Speaking of an extended Dawn mission orbiting Ceres, scientists are not wondering why Ceres does not have more craters.  Could it be ice ...

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Challenger Shuttle disaster - January 28, 1986.  Seven crew members lost their lives when the ...