Astronauts Wanted: Experiment in Hawaii to Test Mars Menus
NASA/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Researchers are looking for six able-bodied volunteers and two backups to be cooped up for 120 days and nights in a make-believe Mars base early in 2013.The experiment is called HI-SEAS — short for Hawaii Space Exp…
New Super-Earth Found Near Distant Star
File photo. Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Scientists have found a planet orbiting another star — 22 light years away — and of all the hundreds of so-called exoplanets so far discovered, this one is, lead researcher Guillem Anglada-Escu…
Gingrich Envisions Space Colonies in Near Future
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images(COCOA BEACH, Fla.) — Newt Gingrich really wants to go to the moon — and to Mars. And he would give statehood to a space colony, if it had a big enough population.Speaking to a yet another massive crowd in Cocoa Be…
Phobos-Grunt: Failed Russian Mars Probe Falls to Earth
Comstock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — Somewhere, probably in the southern Pacific between New Zealand and South America, the failed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe returned ignominiously to Earth Sunday, said the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the U.S. Sp…
First Meteor Shower of 2012 Hits Skies Wednesday Morning
Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — If you’re up early Wednesday morning and the weather is promising, bundle up and go outside. The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first of 2012, should be at its best between 3 a.m. and dawn, Eastern Time.The…