Long-Term Space Travel Poses Serious Risk To Astronauts Due To Virus Virulence

Miami, FL (AHN) - New research suggests that prolific virulence and growth of bacteria, combined with reduced production of antibodies may pose a serious problem to the space program and space travel. Researchers say human missions to ... continue

Interesting: Safire’s speech for Major Tom moon landing scenario

Some people have said that the moon landing was the last great moment of American triumph, even if Buzz Aldrin still has to, at an advanced age, smack around doubting Thomases for challenging the event's veracity. But a ... continue

Discovery Detours Florida, Touches Down In California

Stormy weather in Florida prompted the U.S. space shuttle Discovery to land at the Edwards Air Force Base in California instead of at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday. Emerging from the space shuttle, Discovery Commander Rick "C.J." ... continue

Weird new planet discovered, named Wasp-17

A consortium of British universities, the Wide Area Search for Planets (WASP) has discovered its seventeeth planet, aptly named WASP-17. Collaborating with the Geneva Observatory, the group located the giant planet that is twice the size of Jupiter ... continue

Kepler Telescope Finds Distant Planet During Test Run

Washington, DC (AHN) - NASA launched the Kepler space telescope in March, and it has already discovered a distant planet. The planet is outside the Earth's solar system and orbits a star the space agency refers to as ... continue

Mars in 39 days

One of the biggest things holding back serious space exploration is time. After all the idea of sticking a bunch of astronauts in a tin can and then sending them on a six month ... continue

Get your science geek on: Time could disappear

I have the greatest admiration for people who can think about things so far out there and yet make them seem totally plausible. Scientists are excellent at this and prove it once more with ... continue

Spaceport America breaking ground

Yes folks space travel is coming to New Mexico U.S.A. at $200,000 a pop for at best five minutes of free fall in the middle of a two hour flight. As hard as it ... continue

How to find penguins – look for the brown stain

One wouldn’t think that in the Antarctica it would be too hard to find emperor penguins given that is their home turf and really how the hell to hide is all the great white ... continue

Microsoft goes for the universe with help from NASA

It seems like many moons ago now that we heard how something that Microsoft had done made Robert Scoble cry. While it only turned out to be some pretty incredible software we got to know ... continue

Snow on Mars? More likely than you think

NASA scientists have reported that snow is falling in the atmosphere above Mars. Snow was first spotted on the red planet last year, although the current observation is far more extensive,. The Marsian snow does not reach the surface ... continue

The universe that roared

I’m sure that most people consider that space is a pretty quiet place. Sound doesn’t travel very well and the only way we really hear anything that happens out there is by the radio waves that ... continue