Reassembling the Space Station for Taxis | Europa Signs of Life | Space Oscar Countdown Begins

NASA Gearing Up to Reassemble the Space Station NASA astronauts on the International Space Station will start the process of making room for private space taxis due to dock to the orbiting outpost starting in 2017.

 

Ripley's Debuts Space Station Made of 280,000 Matchsticks, Believe It or Not A space fan crafted a model of the International Space Station made from 280,000 matchsticks. Check it out here. Read More

 

NASA Europa Mission May Search for Signs of Alien Life A potential NASA mission to Jupiter's moon Europa may end up hunting for signs of life on the icy, ocean-harboring world. 'Interstellar,' 'Theory of Everything' Up for 10 Oscars Sunday Oscar night will hold a fair bit of drama for space fans this year, as The Theory of Everything; and Interstellar; are up for a total of 10 Academy Awards.

 

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The Cosmic Chemistry That Gave Rise to Water The chemical signatures of water reveal how star nurseries form. Read More SpaceX: First Private Flights to Space Station SpaceX is a private spaceflight company that regularly delivers payloads to the International Space Station via its Dragon spacecraft. Read More Close Call! 'Scholz's Star' Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago A red dwarf star and its brown-dwarf companion may have passed through the distant outer edge of our solar system 70,000 years ago. The binary star could have been visible from Earth. Read More

 

Monster Black Hole's Mighty Belch Could Transform Entire Galaxy A hungry black hole has belched up a bubble of cosmic wind that could eliminate the rest of its meal and change the landscape of the entire galaxy, according to new observations. Four Space Shuttle Fliers to Be Inducted by Astronaut Hall of Fame The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame will honor four space shuttle astronauts this spring as it marks 25 years since its founding. See which astronauts have the right stuff in 2015. Private Mars One Colony Project Cuts Applicant Pool to 100 Volunteers  One hundred people are still in the running to become humanity's first Mars explorers.