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Android users safe from crashing NASA satellite thanks to an app for the phone and tablet

We've been kind of following the coming Chicken Little moment when the UARS satellite comes crashing to earth, the only problem is that we have no clue as to where that final moment will happen. As Dan Evon ... continue

UARS Satellite Could Hit Earth Tonight, Could Hit United States

Not to stir up any hysteria or anything, but... we're all going to die! The UARS satellite is expected to hit earth later tonight or early tomorrow morning and there is a chance that the satellite will ... continue

The successor to the Hubble telescope rescued from the scrap pile

Space is deep and full of many wonders of which we have learned much about thanks to the Hubble telescope. Unfortunately though it is coming to the end of its life and up until today the possibility of a ... continue

NASA Discovers ‘Star Wars’ Planet Tatooine

A planet with two suns? NASA has just discovered a new planet similar to Tatooine, the fictional planet in "Star Wars." The new planet, called Kepler 16b, orbits two stars at a distance of about 65 million miles. The ... continue

A ‘monster rocket’ to take man beyond the moon is unveiled by NASA [Video]

NASA might have been told to leave the near-earth stuff to the Russians and private companies but that doesn't mean that it still doesn't have its orders to explore beyond our moon, so while the shuttle has ... continue

Take Cover! NASA Satellite is Falling to Earth

The chances are pretty slim that a piece of NASA's UARS satellite falls on your head in the next month or two, but it is possible. NASA said today that your odds of being hit by the ... continue

Mars Soil Discovery Suggests Conditions Hospitable to Life

A new site being explored during NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) has yielded soil samples unlike any examined before on the planet and that appear more favorable for life, scientists said. Opportunity, the resilient solar-powered rover that ... continue

Attack Of The Space Junk: National Research Council Sends Out Stern Debris Warning

In June the International Space Station almost suffered major damage from space junk and now the National Research Council has released a stern warning in which they say the amount of space junk orbiting around earth has ... continue

International Space Station May Be Unmanned Following Russian Space Failure

For the first since 2001 the International Space Station may soon go unmanned. Last week a Russian spaceship crashed back to earth, leaving Russian engineers to determine what caused the crash with only a short term fix ... continue

Mars Orbiter discovers that Mars has caves

It is probably inevitable that man will at some point travel to Mars, and chances are it will be a company behind the expedition rather than NASA but at least now we know that they'll be able ... continue

Scientists discover that Antarctica ice shelf badly damaged by Japanese earthquake

Japan is still recovering from the major earthquake and its follow-up tsunami that struck the country back in March 2011 but the effects of that natural disaster is having far wider effects than just the nuclear reactors that are ... continue

Lego Figures to Jupiter: Boldly Going Where No Toys Have Gone Before

The space shuttle program may have sadly come to an end late last month after several decades, but three wee astronauts are slated to go where no man or toy has gone before. Three unique white Lego men- ... continue

NASA finds evidence of flowing water on Mars

NASA have been searching for water on Earth's sister planet Mars for over a decade, and it appears they may have finally found what they're looking for - and not in the way they expected, either. Scientists previously ... continue

NASA Prepares For Juno Launch, Spacecraft Will Travel To Jupiter

NASA officials prepared this week for the launch of Juno, the agencies newest spacecraft which is set to launch next week from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Once sent into space the ship will head on ... continue

Astronomers find gigantic body of water surrounding a black hole

When peeking out into the vast beyond in black hole APM 08279+5255's (lovely name, isn't it?) general direction, a group of astronomers spotted something a little surprising surrounding the black hole: a gigantic reservoir of water. Not ... continue

The space shuttle may be dead but space exploration isn’t

[caption id="attachment_126567" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Hubble Images: Dawn's Target - Asteroid Vesta"][/caption] While I personally lament the closing of the space shuttle program I revel in the fact that there are still some really cool things that NASA is ... continue

A storm eight times the surface of the Earth rips across Saturn

The hurricanes and tornadoes that rip across our landscape can cause incredible devastation but they are nothing compared to the storms that travel across our sister planets in the solar system. On Saturn these humongous storms are called Great ... continue

Space Shuttle Atlantis Docks At International Space Station

Space shuttle Atlantis has successfully docked with the International Space Station for the last time, marking the final docking for the 30 year old NASA space shuttle program. Docking to the station, space station astronaut Ronald Garan Jr. proclaimed: "Atlantis ... continue

NASA Clears Space Shuttle Atlantis For Last Launch, Weather May Not Cooperate

NASA officials on Wednesday cleared the space shuttle Atlantis for it's final voyage to the International Space Station. The flight is meant to take place on Friday, July 8 but only if weather plays nice with a ... continue

Astronauts Aboard International Space Station Forced to Evacuate as Space Debris Closes In

Earlier today the International Space Station had a near-miss with space debris, prompting all six members on board to temporarily evacuate to their rescue craft. The debris missed the space station by only 820 feet which, in space ... continue

Asteroid 2011 MD: The Latest Near-Earth Object

Earlier today a small asteroid, estimated between 16 and 65 feet in diameter, whipped past Earth, missing us by a mere 7,500 miles - less than two times the radius of our planet. The tour bus sized space ... continue

Clash of the Titans: NASA Reveals ‘Pandora’s Cluster’

NASA scientists who were examining the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster have managed to use telescopes to piece together the galaxy's violent past. Scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ... continue