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Oh Well, Looks Like Rage Probably Ain’t Happening

1:40AM October 1, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Oh don’t worry, id’s latest and greatest is still scheduled to come out next week; it’s premise just got a little bit weaker, as NASA reveals there are fewer apocalypse-causing asteroids rocketing through space than we once thought. More »

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Gamers Discover Two New Planets By Playing A Browser Game

12:30PM September 28, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

It’s been a banner week for gamers and “doing things that count in the real world.” First, they solve a decades-old scientific AIDS stumper using Foldit, and now, they’ve discovered two new possibly Earth-like planets. More »

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New NASA Photo Suggests Signs Of Flowing Water On Mars

5:20AM August 5, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Revise Red Faction. Update Doom. Go back to the drawing board with that Total Recall remake (actually, please just stop making that). NASA announced today that they may have possible evidence of flowing water on Mars. More »

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The Shuttle Has Landed…

10:30PM July 21, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Many of us watched, earlier this month, as the space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into space earlier this month, marking the last time a space shuttle will ever leave the Earth. Early this morning Atlantis came home. More »

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Mario Bids Bon Voyage To The Space Shuttle

3:00AM July 10, 2011 | Owen Good

So you’re attending the final launch in the U.S. space shuttle program’s 30-year history. How would you document the moment? One guy whipped out his 3DS and AR cards and put Mario among those in attendance. More »

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Five Triumphant Moments In Space Shuttle Gaming

11:00AM July 9, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Now that the final mission of NASA’s space shuttle program is underway, we thought we’d take a look at some of the games influenced by the primitive spacecraft over the years. More »

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These Are The First Lego Sets Ever Launched Into Space

1:40AM May 18, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Yesterday, the space shuttle Endeavour launched for the last time, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the ExPRESS Logistics to the ISS. But more importantly, it carried Lego to space for the first time in history. These are the sets. More »

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Deep Space Mystery Solved Using ’70s Computer Graphics Technique

2:40AM April 1, 2011 | Joel Johnson

Extra-solar probes Pioneer 10 and 11 have been confusing astrophysicists for the last decade: they’re slowing down a lot more than we’d expected as they’re leaving the solar system. The slowing has become know as the “Pioneer Anomaly.” (But you probably know it by the popular formula, “Ol’ (8.74±1.33)×10^−10 ms^−2″.) More »

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NASA’s Ringworlds Look A Bit Like Halo

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11:00AM March 22, 2011 | Mark Serrels

A while back the big brains over at NASA thought that Space colonies might look a bit like the above. Our first thought? Stop ripping off Halo you idiots. Our second thought – we’re idiots. Maybe Bungie were ripping off NASA… More »

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Mercury Didn’t Have A Satellite, So We Gave It One

5:30AM March 19, 2011 | Mike Fahey

The planet closest to the sun better be on its best behaviour, because we’re watching it. As of last night NASA’s Messenger probe is the first man-made satellite ever to orbit the planet Mercury. What do we hope to find? More »