After 39 missions — the most of any space shuttle — Discovery takes its final journey to the National Air & Space Museum, where it will be on permanent display.
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An Elephant on Mars? At Least According to This NASA Photo
NASA managed to snag this unique picture of an elephant-shaped lava flow on Mars in the Elysium Planitia sector of the planet. Located on a Martian plain known for displaying some of the planet’s youngest lava flows, this flow …
Rocket With ‘Top-Secret’ Payload Launches Into Orbit
A Delta IV rocket soared into space last Tuesday in California, carrying “CLASSIFIED CARGO” for the National Reconnaissance Office. And everyone knows that means one thing: spy gear! Or at least something equally cool.
The …
Ashton Kutcher Signs Up to Be Shot Into Space
In space, no one can hear you tweet.
Watch: Did a Solar Storm Make the Aurora Borealis More Visible?
The hope that solar flares would light up southern skies seems to have fizzled.
Zero-Gravity Bunnies? Scientists Imagine a Playboy Club in Space
While the first humans prepared to walk on the moon in the 1960s, Hugh Hefner also began opening Playboy Clubs. Today, as private corporations take on space, Playboy preps to launch party-goers toward the heavens with visions of …
Attention Stargazers: Venus, Jupiter and the Moon Will Align for Dazzling Weekend Show
Picky Eaters Need Not Apply: NASA Seeks Taste Testers for Mars Simulation
If you can you stomach four months of experimental Mars-appropriate cooking, NASA has an experience that seems ready-made for a reality TV show.
NASA wants to figure out how it would feed astronauts a balanced, healthy diet if …
Girl Launches Her MIT Acceptance Letter Toward Space
MIT’s future students receive their acceptance letters in shimmering silver cardboard tubes. It’s more of a legacy item – the mailing used to contain a poster – but now it’s simply a postmarked reminder of the …
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Solar Storm: Get Out Your Camera, Put Away Your Cell Phone
Don’t fret, at least too much, about that impending radiation storm set to hit Earth today through tomorrow, the largest such storm to find its way to us since May 2005.
A powerful solar flare called a coronal mass ejection …
Cosmic Cabernet: Meteorite-Aged Wine Debuts in Chile
A British winemaker in Chile has combined his two passions — winemaking and astronomy — to create the world’s first space wine.