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NASA satellite shows Gulf of Mexico oil disaster in full color

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 2:53am

The Deepwater Horizon, which drilled the deepest oil well in history back in September of last year, sank on the 22nd of April after being rocked by a massive explosion that claimed the lives of 11 workers on the rig....

They're not coming: Aliens have no reason to invade Earth

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 9:37am

They want to eat us, they want to experiment on us, they need our resources. No, they don't, say experts. If aliens were coming here, they would've traveled astonishing distances, which would be exorbitantly expensive. They probably have all the...

November will be your last chance to see a NASA shuttle take off

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 4:29am

Originally slated for a launch in September, NASA announced on Monday that space shuttle Discovery won't go up into the void until November at the earliest (though the agency has said that, depending on preparations, the launch could be as...

Rogue NASA manager isn't ready to buy into Obama's vision for space

Kevin Hall

Monday, April 26, 2010 - 4:12am

President Obama has made it pretty clear that he wants NASA to go in a new direction, relying more heavily on the private sector while developing next-gen tech that would take us beyond the original target of the moon to...

Mind-boggling video shows fiery details of the nearest star

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 10:38am

Want to know how stars work? We happen to have one in the neighborhood. That's why on February 11th of this year, NASA launched the most advanced solar observation satellite yet, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Yesterday, the space agency...

Breakthrough in space inspired by bubble baths

Kevin Hall

Friday, April 16, 2010 - 5:56am

It was actually astronaut Naoko Yamazaki's seven-year-old daughter who posed the scientific question to be tested. She asked her space-bound mother why, in a bubble bath, bubbles appear to be clear even if the bubble bath mixture is a fun...

NASA might get the bucks to go to Mars after all

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 9:39am

Budget cuts recently spanked NASA's space program, reducing it to a ragtag fleet of space-faring robots, but wait. President Obama somehow found $6 billion for the beleaguered space agency, in the name of creating 2,500 additional jobs at NASA. The...

NASA and GM to send human-like robot into space for the first time

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 3:50am

Both humans and robots have explored the final frontier, but for the first time a human-like robot is going to be sent into space to aid the astronauts on the International Space Station. Known as Robonaut 2 (or endearingly, R2),...

The future of space: U.S. private contractor to resupply ISS

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 2:41am

Never before has something like this felt like the definitive future of space flight. However, with NASA's shuttles about to be grounded forever and the agency left without a manned delivery vehicle as per Obama's orders, it's going to be...

That's no moon — it's Pac-Man

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 12:32pm

As seen on our sister site, SCI FI Wire, NASA's discovered something lurking out in the depths of space. Thanks to the massive, 81-mile-wide Herschel impact crater marring the surface of Mimas, one of Saturn's moons, the satellite is often...

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NASA satellite shows Gulf of Mexico oil disaster in full color

They're not coming: Aliens have no reason to invade Earth

November will be your last chance to see a NASA shuttle take off

Rogue NASA manager isn't ready to buy into Obama's vision for space

Mind-boggling video shows fiery details of the nearest star

Breakthrough in space inspired by bubble baths

NASA might get the bucks to go to Mars after all

NASA and GM to send human-like robot into space for the first time

The future of space: U.S. private contractor to resupply ISS

That's no moon — it's Pac-Man

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