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Following some concern that they didn't know where all their rocks were, NASA commissioned an audit - which confirmed they didn't know where all their rocks were.

For the night-owls, look up in the northern sky a little after midnight on Sunday December 11th and the moon which ought to be blazing down will be strangely dim.

Despite many reports to the contrary, it seems UARS fell into the southern equatorial Pacific, not Canada.

Early reports are just in; UARS fragments have been discovered south of Calgary in Canada.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the clearest images yet of the various Apollo landing sites.  Memo to the nay-sayers: the landings really did happen - here's photographic proof.

Volunteers and experts around the world are collaborating to solve disaster and climate Problems through Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), with the event set to come to Melbourne next month.

In planning since 1959, NASA's Gravity Probe B was launched in 2004 to test two key predictions of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  With great success.

With the first summer solstice lunar eclipse since 1378 almost upon us, much of the world will enjoy a great spectacle; but not those of us in Australia and Asia, who will see little or none of it.

The Boeing Company has developed a space capsule that holds seven astronauts and could be used to ferry passengers and supplies back and forth to the International Space Station. Will it be chosen to partially replace the space shuttle?

The U.S. space agency has set up a website so that all Earthlings can also become Martians. NASA says it is an Age of Virtual Exploration and the Human-Robotic Partnership. Sign up now!

NASA has announced an experiment that it wishes to run as part of its Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. Undergraduate students will design a reduced gravity experiment and fly it on board one of NASA's microgravity ('Weightless Wonder') aircraft.

U.S. astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have conjectured that a very rare hypervelocity star (a really fast one) was flung out of our Milky Way galaxy by its supermassive black hole over one hundred million years ago.

The U.S. space agency NASA has produced the world's first map of the height of all Earth's forests. The map will help scientists learn more about the carbon cycle and its affect on our atmosphere.

How about a planet that acts like a comet! The Hubble Space Telescope has found planet HD 209458b. NASA says it is a gas giant that is so close to its star'”about 4 million miles away'”that its atmosphere is escaping into space so fast that the created winds look like a sweeping tail of a comet.

The Commerce Committee of the U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a $19 billion bill that basically agrees with the earlier White House plan for private space vehicles, a continuation of the International Space Station, and more shuttle flights. A few different directions have been agreed upon, though.

The U.S. space agency NASA wants you to develop a small satellite (independently, without government help) that can be launched frequently into space. If you do so, you will receive US$2 million. Two other Challenges are also available for the development of rovers and robots.

The NASA Science article "Down the Lunar Rabbit-Hole" tells of the distinct possibility of giant caverns, caves, and tunnels under the Moon's surface. Giant holes on the lunar surface could lead to "entrances to a geologic wonderland." Go tell Alice we'll be there eventually.

As the space shuttle program winds down, NASA's prime shuttle contractor will be laying off about 15% of its workforce on October 1, 2010. About 1,300 space shuttle employees will be out of their space jobs in Florida, Texas, and Alabama.

NASA announced on July 1, 2010, that it has confirmed the launch dates of STS-133 and STS-134. The space shuttle program is officially active through the end of February 2011.

The U.S. space agency NASA issued an announcement on June 29, 2010, that it is looking for a heavy-lift rocket to help the United States reach the Moon, asteroids, Mars, and other far-flung destinations in our Solar System. Do you have what it takes to build such a vehicle?