// Got $1.5 billion? Then you can go to the moon! A team of former NASA executives created a private venture which offers two-person trips to the moon. NASA’s last trip to the moon was 40 years ago, when the US beat the Soviet Union in the ...

// This weekend we will be able to admire the famous Leonid meteor shower, as this year the moon is only crescent and it will be out of the sky completely by the time the constellation begins to be visible Leonid meteors are in fact debris shed ...

// Believe it or not, British intelligence agents are trying to decipher a 70-year-old message found in 1982. The message was found attached to the leg of a hero World War II carrier pigeon, which apparently didn’t manage to reach its target. The ...

// Seven scientists and experts were convicted by court in L’Aquila, Italy, for failing to warn citizens before the 2009 earthquake, which killed 300 people. They received 6-year-prison sentences. Among the convicted scientists are some ...

// Amateur astronomers have discovered the real-life version of the ‘Star Wars’ planet Tatooine. Called PH1 the gas giant planet is a little bigger than Neptune and has two suns, orbited by two more stars. The four-start planetary system ...

// An eastern Tennessee family has used a piece of meteorite as a doorstop and flower bed for years. The space rock was found in the 1930s, in a cow pasture near Tazewell, Tenn, by Tilmon Brooks, the grandfather of Donna Lewis, the one who currently ...

// NASA’s Curiosity rover has begun taking samples of the Martian soil. On Wednesday, October 17th, $2.5 billion machine took the third small amount of soil and sent it to its Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument, or CheMin. The first sample ...

// You know how anyone cringes at the sound of chalk or nails scratching on a blackboard? A recent study from England shows that what this sound does is triggering an uptick in communication between a part of the brain responsible for emotions ...

// On Sunday, October 7th, NASA’s Curiosity has detected a bright object on Mars, perhaps a Martian material. Officials haven’t made any further scooping or sampling and the entire Monday was spent photographing the odd object to determine ...

// Latest Update: Felix Baumgartner’s jump has been delayed because of the bad weather. There is no information on when the launch will be made taking into consideration that the weather will continue to deteriorate. Although 70 mph doesn’t ...