Future Planetary Exploration

Planetary geologist Phil Horzempa returns with a new post on Mars landers planned through 2018. It doesn't seem to be widely known, b...

Last February, I wrote about proposals to use two surplus spy telescope assemblies for planetary science ( Brother, Can You Spare $1B for a ...

A few years ago, cost overruns in NASA’s science program were a significant news story.  (See, for example, this post from 2009 .)  The ma...

The sequester will hit NASA again, with large reported cuts to the Planetary Science program.  NASA's managers have stated for several m...