October 21, 2015 Skyrocketing inflation: Russia now charging NASA $70 million per seat to fly US astronauts NASA is blaming Congress for the need to pay $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space.
October 21, 2015 Here's what the Big Bang sounded like In the beginning, there was a righteous bass. So says physicist John Cramer, who has not only found evidence of the sound created during the Big Bang.
October 21, 2015 Dark matter, hidden substance that makes up the universe, possibly found by $2b space physics experiment NASA will unveil the first discoveries from a powerful $2 billion particle physics experiment on the International Space Station in what could be a major vindication for the science tool, which almost never made it into space.
October 21, 2015 Whoa! Mini-supernovas discovered Astronomers have discovered a new kind of supernova, a star explosion so weak that scientists dubbed it a miniature stellar blast.
October 21, 2015 Massive solar storms may peak this year -- again The sun is surprisingly quiet at the moment, but that may be because our star is gearing up for the second phase of a one-two wallop in its 11-year activity cycle, some scientists say.
October 21, 2015 'Virgin' comet may hit Mars in 2014 A newfound comet is apparently on course to have an exceedingly close call with the planet Mars in October 2014, and there is a chance — albeit small — that the comet may even collide with the Red Planet.
October 21, 2015 Married to Mars: 9 questions for Dennis Tito on private Martian trips The world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito, has founded a new nonprofit organization to work toward launching the first manned mission to Mars in 2018.
October 21, 2015 The hypersonic spaceplanes of yesteryear A host of science fiction writers have explored hypersonic travel, as did Walter Dornberger, former director of the V-2 program at Peenemunde in Germany, in 1956.
October 21, 2015 4.5 billion 'alien Earths' may populate Milky Way Billions of Earth-like alien planets likely reside in our Milky Way galaxy, and the nearest such world may be just a stone's throw away in the cosmic scheme of things, a new study reports.
October 21, 2015 Could 3D printers build a future moon base? The technology behind 3D printing has allowed users to craft musical instruments and prosthetic limbs, and now European scientists are taking a serious look at printing their own moon base.
