People keep buzzing about water on the moon, and missions to mars – not to mention arsenic-based life forms – but Japan has instead chosen the second planet from the sun as the test location for their first orbiting probe.
Space
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.”
Outer Space Snowstorm: Did Comet Probe Encounter Blizzard?
The final frontier becomes a winter wonderland?
Amateur Stargazer Leads NASA to Baby Black Hole
Apparently Albert Einstein was wrong, black holes are not where God divided by zero!
Twitter Space Trivia: Where Over The World is Astronaut Scott Kelly?
Have you been looking for a way to combine your love for Twitter, trivia, geography and space into one useful purpose? Well thanks to astronaut Scott Kelly, your wish has come true.
To Infinity and Beyond: Watch This Paper Plane Fall to Earth From Orbit
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Why yes, and it’s made of paper straws.
Reading While Eating for November 10: Funny Faces and Space Sights
Your mid-week links pose for photos and root for the underdog.
Interstellar Voting: The Astronauts Have Cast Ballots – From Space. So What’s Your Excuse?
From the Great Lakes to the Big Apple, from the prairies to Low Earth Orbit, it’s election day in the U.S.A. (via AP)
Send Your Name to Mars While Watching the New Rover Get Built
NASA is on a mission: to make space travel more interactive.
A Final Discovery: Space Shuttle Gears Up For Last Mission Wednesday
To infinity and beyond.
Father-Son Team Launch Balloon With HD Camera, iPhone Into Space
Apparently fishing just doesn’t cut it anymore.
One Small Step for Enterprise: First Commercial Space Flight Takes Off
Space, the final frontier — in tourism.