"The price per seat will slap your wallet or purse for a swift $100 million - but you'll have to get in line as the first voyage is already booked." Damn it - must get rich quickly.
"The apparent detection of low frequency radio waves makes liquid water beneath the surface of the huge Saturnian moon a possibility, according to research led by Fernando Simoes..."
"Six teams from across the country are headed for a rumble in California on Saturday, where $250,000 in NASA prize money awaits the best robotic Moon dirt diggers."
"So is there an organic-rich mixture below the surface of Enceladus even today? Cassini found hydrocarbon chains in the moon’s plume, which means we can’t rule this scenario out."
"Via the Lunar Picture of the Day comes this astonishing image from Peter Lawrence, an accomplished astrophotographer..." That is just simply brilliant. Go lookee!
"China's leading space vehicle expert predicts the nation will be able to send astronauts to the moon within 15 years, state media reported on Tuesday."
"...the company has set its sights on something much, much bigger: a project to assemble full-blown space villages at a work site between Earth and the moon, then drop them to the lunar surface,
"These 12-foot (3.65 meter) diameter inflatable units could be used as building blocks for a future lunar base. Right now, a prototype is tested at NASA's Langley Research Center." Er, aster
"Life on Jupiter's moon Europa is just as feasible as life on Mars and worthy of NASA's attention, scientists have argued." Unfortunately it's a somewhat bigger distance away, too.
"Before our race decides to muster the courage to populate our solar system, we need to figure out our current strengths and weaknesses, as well as threats to colonizing a world."
"On the Moon, astronauts can develop and test techniques for building habitats, harvesting resources and operating machinery in low gravity, high vacuum, harsh radiation, pervasive dust and fanta
"Astronomers [...] have found that Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, is a "cosmic graffiti artist," pelting the surfaces of at least 11 other moons of Saturn with ice particl
If you don't mind a wee bit of Flash, here's a guided tour of Saturn's moon Titan, and all the funky stuff that the Huygens and Cassini found out about it. Not a nice place for a holiday - especially
"With binoculars, examine the rugged face of the Moon. It is pocked with thousands of impact craters from interplanetary asteroids and comets. Ever wonder why Earth, a much bigger target, apparen
"Digging on Mars and drilling on the Moon could become the main aims of Europe's space effort. These were the enticing prospects discussed at a meeting ... about the European Space Agency's explo
"NASA's planned moon base announced last week could pave the way for deeper space exploration to Mars, but one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the terrestrial energy industry." Oh, great
"The U.S. space agency's newly unveiled grand plan for a continually staffed lunar outpost starting around 2024 does not come with a similarly grand price tag. It does not come with a price tag a
"Whenever the Administration declares that NASA is going to do something stupendously amazing twenty years from now, it's window-dressing for an immediate purge. Here's one. Eliminate Earth plane
"If all goes well, NASA could have a permanent moon base by 2020. This is hopeful, because it’s a step towards putting our eggs in more than one basket."
"It’s frustrating to be so lukewarm about the Great Human Adventure in Space, about which I’d much prefer to be enthusiastic. But nothing about the operation inspires confidence, much less wonder
"The UK’s possible role in lunar exploration was just one of the subjects discussed today by the new Minister for Science and Innovation, Malcolm Wicks, and Dr Michael Griffin, Head of NASA."
"NASA is set to roll out next month a U.S. national strategy for lunar exploration, one that outlines both robotic exploration needs and the rationale for sending humans back to the Moon."
"Not only does the magnetic field preserve an unsullied lunar surface but it would partially protect any astronauts strolling beneath - the lunar fields are strong enough to deflect solar wind io
"Ultra-tiny dust grains can gum up the works of vital hardware on the Moon. And there's also a possible risk to health from gulping in the lunar dust—a toxicological twist to 'bad Moon rising.'&q