Mars or Bust

As the United States sends a spacecraft towards a distant asteroid, the European Space Agency was watching a different story as its explor...

At this week's International Astronautical Congress in Mexico, Elon Musk gave us all a better idea of his plans for traveling to Ma...

On November 11th, Paramount will release its new film Arrival .  Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker, it is the age-old...

Earlier this month China launched the Tiangong-2 ("Heavenly Palace") into orbit to replace the  Tiangong-1, which has been in...

It never hurts to listen to another podcast while commuting or working around the house, so why not try The Planetary Society's Red Pl...

A 30-ton meteorite? That's right, and unearthed earlier this month in Argentina. Said to have hit the Earth between 4, 000 and 6,000 ...

"Today, thanks to a series of successful American robotic explorers, we know more about the Red Planet than ever before...A goal of my ...

It wasn't long ago Elon Musk was laughing about Blue Origin's successful return of the New Shepard reusable rocket because it w...

With all the discussion about the SpaceX mishap, it was just the right time for Virgin Galactic, another space pioneer, to show it was bac...

"Despair is always the wrong response to a failure during exploration and it isn’t disciplined engineering. When the entire crew of ...

It appears SpaceX will take the lead on the investigation of the Falcon 9 explosion on September 1 , though NASA, the Air Force, the Fede...

On the 50th anniversary of the first showing of Star Trek television series, it is worth reading the statements of scientists who carry o...

Tomorrow is the planned launch date of the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security and Regolith Explorer (OS...

And now for something completely different.  This paper animation Star Wars video from Eric Power uses Jeremy Messersmith's mellow tu...

Juno has sent back additional images showing Jupiter up close.  It includes the "never-before-seen perspective" on Jupiter's...

The spectacular image above was taken by one of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel satellites.  Here is ESA's explana...

 Tonight you can watch the Smithsonian Channel's special Building Star Trek .  The summary for the program states: When "Star T...

SpaceX released this statement  yesterday regarding Thursday's rocket explosion in Florida: SpaceX has begun the careful and delibera...

Bad news for SpaceX and therefore NASA - a Falcon rocket exploded in Florida earlier today in preparation for a commercial satellite lau...

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...