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Janice Voss, Female Astronaut, Dies of Cancer at 55

Janice Voss passed away earlier this week in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she was being treated for breast cancer. Voss, who was one of only six female astronauts to make five ventures into space, was 55-years-old. Discovery reports that ... continue

Roger Boisjoly, Scientists Who Fought to Prevent Challenger Launch, Dies at 73

Perhaps one of the more defining and upsetting moments of the decade for 80's kids was when we all basically saw a whole bunch of astronauts die in real-time on television during the ill-fated launch of the ... continue

Mars too dry to support life, researchers say

Could some form of microbial life possibly exist on Mars? According to the findings of an international team of researchers, it is highly unlikely that life in any form currently exists on Mars, as conditions on the ... continue

NASA Releases Second Super High-Resolution ‘Blue Marble’ Photograph

Last month NASA released the highest resolution "Blue Marble" image of Earth to date and now the US Space Agency has updated its image repository with the flip side photograph of our planet. The first image (shown below) ... continue

NASA’s ‘Blue Marble’ Photos Set Flickr Record

NASA has just released another image of the "Blue Marble." This time, the Suomi NPP Earth-observing-satellite captured a composite image of the Eastern hemisphere. The original "Blue Marble" photo, which was released last month, has already been ... continue

Dark Side of the Moon Filmed For First Time By NASA [Video]

NASA has just posted a video of the dark side of the moon. The video was captured by the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) and shows the far-side of the moon as a grey, crater filled place. Maria ... continue

Alien Particles Invading Our Galaxy

Alien particles have been found by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). The discovery, particles that come from beyond our solar system, was made 200,000 miles away from earth. The Huffington Post reports that the IBEX found three separate ... continue

Hacker Arrested After Stealing Confidential Information From NASA And Pentagon

A Romanian hacker by the name of Razvan Manole Cernaianu, also known by his nickname TinKode, was arrested after he hacked into NASA and Pentagon. Governments take hacking very seriously as for one, confidential information is hidden on ... continue

NASA Launches Facebook Game ‘Space Race Blastoff’

NASA, despite getting a cut in funding, is still buzzing about. They launched a Facebook game titled Space Race Blastoff which is a multiplayer game. The social network continues to be a hotbed of interaction and social gaming ... continue

Kepler hits jackpot, discovers 26 new planets and 11 new star systems

NASA's Kepler planet-hunting mission has been discovering planet after planet since it was launched back in 2009, but the latest discovery from the team is the biggest batch of new planets yet. NASA and its Kepler space telescope ... continue

Hubble spots the most distant galaxy cluster ever observed

Utilizing the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers have discovered a cluster of developing galaxies an astonishing 13.1 billion light-years from Earth, making the galaxy clusters the oldest and most distant galaxy clusters ever observed. Discovered during ... continue

NASA questions Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell’s sale of checklist

Back in November of last year, astronaut James Lovell auctioned off a 70-page "Lunar Module Activation Checklist" with his own hand-written calculations that, among other things, ultimately saved the Apollo 13 crew. Apparently, NASA has taken issue ... continue

NASA Makes New Year’s Resolution: More Lunar Discoveries in 2012

NASA is starting the new year by putting two spacecrafts into orbit around the moon. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, Grail, spacecrafts are expected to start orbiting the moon today. Space.com reports that the first Grail Spacecraft, ... continue

Phobos-Grunt, Toxic Russian Mars Probe To Crash to Earth in January

Russia's doomed Mars Probe, Phobos-Grunt is going to come crashing back into the Earth's atmosphere in late January, and it is entirely possible that dozens of pieces may survive the reentry according to scientists. Russian scientists are supposedly ... continue