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Another Satellite Falling To Earth, Could Hit Someone

The German satellite ROSAT (Roentgen Satellit) will fall back to earth by the end of October, marking the second satellite to re-enter earth's atmosphere in just a one month period. According to experts the 1.6 Ton satellite has a ... continue

Two Apollo era astronauts lament the decline of NASA – “It’s embarrassing”

As someone who has the rare privilege of saying that he watched man step foot on the moon for the very first time on his thirteenth birthday I will say that watching the decline of the U.S. space program to nothing more ... 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

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

That Russian Soyuz crash – it was because of a manufacturing flaw. Ouch.

As the United States pulls out of any near earth space operations NASA is looking to the Russians to provide the needed space shuttling work between earth and the space station using unmanned cargo ships. So needless to ... continue

Super-Earth Could Support Life, Scientists Say

If Canada isn't far enough away from the Tea Party for you to comfortably set up residence, take heart- scientists have located a planet they believe can support human life, the Associated Press reports. The European Southern Observatory ... 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

Clouds photographed in all their naked splendor from 4 miles up [Video]

I think we all have spent the occasional sunny afternoon laying in a park staring up at the sky watching clouds drift by and seeing all kinds of shapes hidden in them. When it comes to taking, ... continue

An amazing simulation of our Milky Way [Video]

Space, the final frontier, well okay maybe I'm getting a little carried away there but for as long as man has realized that our planet is only a part of a larger galaxy, the Milky Way, they ... 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

One scientist proposes a space Roomba for getting rid of dangerous space debris

One of the biggest dangers facing current; and future, space exploration is the large amount of debris that is littered in orbit around the Earth. The most recent occurrence that illustrates this danger is when the astronauts at ... 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

The International Space Station to join the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean in 2020

First it was the last launch, and landing, of NASA's space shuttle and now we find out that our other bastion in space, the International Space Station will come to the end of its life in 2020 ... 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

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

NASA’s awesome animation of the next Mars Rover in action

NASA's previous Mars Rover exceeded all expectations, living and discovering long past the time that they were expected to. The Opportunity rover landed on Mars in 2004 and kept exploring until 2011 until it finally quit sending ... continue

Break out the champagne folks, the Space Station is officially done.

It's taken thirteen years and somewhere between $35 billion and $100 billion but today marks the day that the International Space Station has officially completed construction. The final official piece to the Space Station was the laser-equipped extension ... continue