Celebrating the Planet Hunters Birthday | Apollo 9 Life Altering Glitch | Fierce Superflares

Happy Birthday, Kepler! NASA Planet Hunter Marks 6 Years in Space NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than half of all known planets beyond our solar system, just celebrated six years in space.

 

Apollo 9 Spacewalk Glitch Led To Life-Altering Experience | Video In an interview with XPRIZE, former NASA astronaut Rusty Schweickart recalls how a minor camera malfunction (on the first spacewalk of the Apollo program) gave him five minutes of "incredible" Earth views to appreciate. Read More

 

How Did the Saturn Moon Titan's Atmosphere Form? Data from Europe's Huygens probe is revealing how atmosphere of Saturn's moon formed. Virgin Galactic: Richard Branson's Space Tourism Company Entrepreneur Richard Branson aims to take paying passengers into space in the next few years.

 

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Fierce 'Superflares' from the Sun Zapped the Infant Earth Our young sun may have routinely blasted Earth with gobs of energy more powerful than any similar bombardments recorded in human history. Read More Best Space Stories of the Past Week A powerful camera spotted a comet and scientists captured images of a supernova four different times. Here are Space.com's pics for the top space stories of the week. Read More NASA Finds Likely Source of Mars Rover Curiosity's Short Circuit The short circuit that has halted some of the science work by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity apparently originated in the robot's rock-boring drill, mission team members say. Read More

 

Space Station Enters Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease | Video Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will attempt to grow the fibrous plaque(amyloids)that are the root cause of the brain disease. Einstein's Theory of Relativity Explained (Infographic) Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2015. See the basic facts of Einstein's relativity in our infographic here. 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.