At approximately 2:28pm PST (5:28 p.m. EST) on Monday December 17th, after a fruitful year of scientific discovery, the NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission probes are going out with a bang. They will careen low over the surface of the moon, in a path set to carefully avoid historic sites, and crash into an unnamed mountain at 3800mph (6115kph.) The two probes were named Ebb... 

NASA’s pre-released Mayan 2012 “Told You So” video starts out with a date, December 22nd 2012. It simply states right off, “If you’re watching this video, it means one thing: The World Didn’t End Yesterday.” The message is clear, NASA was confident enough that the Mayan Apocalypse prophesy is bogus enough that they wanted to get the video out early. The video... 

Get ready for a grand light show tonight, as the annual Geminid meteor shower peaks between sunset Thursday and sunrise Friday morning. The streaking lights will occur hourly until dawn, and this year the meteors will not be diluted by the light of the moon, due to the darkness of the new moon in Sagittarius this evening. The bright flashes of light are actually remnants of the asteroid Phaethon,... 

A strange new phenomenon has been discovered by the Voyager 1 space probe as it comes ever closer to crossing the heliopause, the unexplored outer boundary of our little system of planets. On August 25, sensors on the probe detected a sharp decline in the low-energy particles from solar wind, and a corresponding permanent increase in high-energy cosmic rays. Since these particles from our sun were... 

Nefertiti, the space-spider died over the weekend due to natural causes. She was 10 months old and jumping spiders normally live for about one year. The jumping ‘spidernaut’ had recently returned from a 100 day space journey where she circled the Earth about 1,584 times and traveled some 41,580,000 miles. While Nefertiti was not the first spider to go into space, she was the first to return... 

NASA is streaming a live press conference on the updates of the recent discoveries made by the Mars Curiosity Rover. Despite some rumors that you may have heard, don’t expect anything of a bombshell sort from this press conference with NASA. NASA officials wrote in an update about what the press conference will be about, “This briefing will offer findings from examining the composition... 

Sometimes throughout life people may want to be adventurous  and look for activities to get their heart beating fast.  You could probably label them as “Thrill Seekers”. For one particular thrill seeker he wanted to do something that no human being has ever successfully done by skydiving from space. 43 year old Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner set the world record... 

The skydiving stunt that many have been biting their nails to see was cancelled today. The official announcements were actually made from Red Bull that they would be postponing Felix Baumgartner’s massive balloon launch into the atmosphere due to high winds. The winds were even stronger at the 700 foot level. It was reported from Roswell, New Mexico that the balloon had a maximum wind rate of... 

As Louisiana tightens down the hatches and tries to wait out the powerful Hurricane strength storm Isaac, people share pictures from all around the web. This time around social media sites like Twitter, Instagram, Twitpic & Facebook are allowing people to share real-time Hurricane Isaac pictures that rival what the typical news can show. The Hurricane Isaac storm has actually recently been downgraded... 

Early Monday morning (late in the afternoon on Mars), NASA’s newest Mars rover, Curiosity, successfully landed on the red planet. The moment led to joyful celebration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will now test Curiosity’s equipment and send the craft on a $2.5 billion mission to explore Mars. Scientists hope to use data from Curiosity to see if Mars was ever suitable for life. Loaded...