Martian Dust Storms

Two huge dust storms have developed on Mars recently.

Both grew to cover areas larger than the United States.

Blue Origins

Blue Origin plans to launch a crew on a suborbital flight within a year.

The company plans to eventually deliver people to orbit.

Einstein

Today is the 136th anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein.

Einstein ranks as one of the seminal geniuses in human history.  His theory of relativity is key to our understanding of the universe.

North Korea

Western experts are raising the question of how to deal with North Korea in space.

North Korea has no real assets in space, they point out, so it has no incentive to follow the established rules.

Fast Radio Bursts

Fast radio bursts are brief, extremely bright emissions that as yet have no natural explanation.

One possible explanation is that they are generated by advanced civilizations to power huge interstellar or even intergalactic spacecraft.

Refueling Depots

Robert Bigelow says private refueling depots could be in lunar orbit by 2020.

For that to happen, however, he said the Trump administration must act quickly to create a market for the fuel.

NASA Budget

The House and Senate have passed a roughly $19 billion NASA budget for the fiscal year.

The bill also directs NASA to put humans on or in the vicinity of Mars in the 2030s.