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Do you want to go to Mars? Well here's your chance to get connected for a double barreled dose of Red Planet adventure courtesy of MAVEN - NASA's next 'Mission to Mars' which is due to liftoff this November from the Flor...

Ball lightning? Spectral orbs? Swamp gas? Early this morning, May 7, these eerie glowing trails were seen in the sky above the Marshall Islands and were captured on camera by NASA photographer John Grant. Of course, if N...

We guarantee you'll go out of your Vulcan mind watching this new car commercial starring Spock ... and Spock. The Audi ad shows Leonard Nimoy (Spock from Star Trek's original series) and Zachary Quinto (Spock from Star T...

Last week, Russian researcher Andrei Zlobin announced that stony fragments collected from a riverbed in 1988 are "probably Tunguska meteorites," and are likely the remains of whatever cosmic object -- thought to be eithe...

Buzz Aldrin, celebrated Apollo astronaut and an outspoken champion for the pursuit of space exploration has written a new book titled "Mission to Mars." While the title focuses on Mars, the book covers much more. Aldrin ...

It's a simple menu, but smoking hot. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is sucking in ultra-hot molecular gas, as seen through the eyes of the Herschel space telescope. (...)Read the rest of Milky Way's...

How fast is Greenland's ice sheet melting in response to climate change, and how is it recovering? A new NASA rover with the friendly name of GROVER (Greeland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration a...

The second flight of ESA's newest launch vehicle has successfully sent three different satellites to space. Launching at 02:06 GMT on 7 May from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the Vega rocket carried two Ea...

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