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Aqua Is Back: The ‘Barbie Girl’ Group Ditches Plastic for ‘Jesus’

In what appears to be a bid to shake the “one hit wonder” label, Danish-Norwegian pop group Aqua (of “Barbie Girl” fame) recently released a single, “Playmate to Jesus.”

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Scientist Claims to Have Found Evidence of ET, But Don’t Phone Home Just Yet

Do we now have proof that aliens exist?

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShip2 glides toward Earth on its first test flight over Mojave, California

Luxury Space Travel? In This Economy, We Didn’t Think So

Earth to New Mexico: Maybe that expensive investment in commercial space travel wasn’t such a great idea after all.

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Sex in Space: Certainly Possible, But Not Recommended

Astronauts planning to have an out-of-this-world reproductive experience, take note! Experiments conducted on zebrafish suggest that space travel could harm your unborn child. (via The New Scientist)

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Space Cadets: 400 People Volunteer for One-Way Trip to Mars

Sure, being one of the first people to land on Mars would be pretty cool. But what if you couldn’t come back to Earth to brag about it?

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Astronomy Hysteria: Is NASA’s Thursday Announcement About Life on Other Planets?

Science bloggers are going a bit nuts over the vague announcement by NASA on Monday that it will discuss an “astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.”

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Hurricane Earl’s Path: An Astronaut’s Point of View

Attention average Americans relegated to doppler radar on your local weather forecast: U.S. Army Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock provides a new lens to the storm.

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NASA Discovers Two New Planets Transiting the Same Star

The agency’s Kepler spacecraft has spent the past few months searching for Earth-sized planets outside the current solar system. Mission accomplished.

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Happy Anniversary: Neil Armstrong Gets Customs Document Swiped

Times are oh-so-different than 1969.