The presentations for last month's meeting of NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) were posted online last week.  The focu...

Here are some short little news items that are hitting the interplanetary interwebs today: Ian Musgrave's Astroblog is this week's...

Yesterday, while finishing up work on the Exploration of Io article on Wikipedia and looking for a graphic for the Jupiter Europa Orbiter ...

The 139th edition of the Carnival of Space , a weekly series highlighting the best in the astronomy and space blogosphere, is now online...

Well, Hey Hey all! You've probably been wondering where in the world I have been. Well, I have been around, but unfortunately there ha...

Sorry for the lack of updates the last couple of days. The air conditioner at home is STILL out, though I am told it should be back up and ...

Paul Schenk , a planetary scientist from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, has a nice post on Unmannedspaceflight.com w...

Eric posted a few comments yesterday which provided a great suggestion for a blog post. What are the outstanding science questions that re...

With a mission now planned for the Jupiter system in the 2020s, how will the Io Volcano Observer proposal be affected? Would a dedicated I...

Quite a few news articles have been posted online about the selection of the Europa/Jupiter System Mission as the next Outer Planet Flagship...

The news of the Outer Planet Flagship downselection is beginning to reverberate across the internet and planetary science community. Jim Gr...

Of course NASA just wants to mess with me, you know that right ;) No sooner do I post a note about how the Flagship mission hasn't been...

Presumably a lot of you are coming here to check on which target, Titan or Europa, was selected for the next Outer Planets Flagship Mission ...

Okay, after I saw Emily practically dare me to talk about something other than Io with respect to these flagship missions, I thought fine, ...

In my previous articles on the Europa/Jupiter System Mission , I have focused on the kinds of science that the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO) ...

Yesterday we took a more detailed look at the types of observations that are being planned for the Europa/Jupiter System Mission (if it...

Now that the more detailed mission studies for both the Jupiter Europa Orbiter and the Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter are now online, we can del...

The Flagship Mission Downselection Meeting will take place tomorrow, February 12. At the meeting, the Science chiefs for ESA and NASA, Davi...

Here is a quick round-up of random items from the web that you all might find interesting: Van Kane has published on his blog, Future Plane...

As I mentioned in the last post, Nature has a news article by Eric Hand on the run-up to the downselection of the destination of the next O...