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According to some of the latest evidence and photos from Mars, there is a valve hidden in some soil in the latest picture. NASA has been sending Curiosity (the probe) to check out the red planet to see what they can put together with the images.

Oops.  There are few things that fail so spectacularly as an unmanned rocket exploding just seconds after lift-off.  That's what happened the other day.  Thankfully, no one was hurt.

Temperatures around the Duluth - Superior area this morning were between -15 and -30 Fahrenheit before wind chill was factored in. In America's icebox, places like Embarass and International Falls saw temperatures below -40 before factoring any wind chill. These temperatures have been colder than places in the Arctic Circle lately, but it turns out there is another shocking fact about this frigid

Earth, Mars, Neptune – how hard can it possibly be to name a planet? Now’s your chance to find out.

On a day that opened with a large meteor explosion over Russia and an asteroid big enough to destroy a city passing between our weather satellites and the planet, humanity is keeping a keen eye on they sky for more. Friday evening (February 15) was capped off with another sighting captured on video in Northern California in the San Francisco area.

On what seemed like a normal Friday morning in the Chelyabinsk region of South Central Russia, the unexpected happened. A large meteor streaked across the sky, exploding in the atmosphere, and unleashing an intense flash and thunderous explosion. We have a collection of videos from the explosion and updated injury and damage details after the jump.

Lego's are by far my favorite toy ever.  I'll admit, I still like to play with them!  So what could be better than a re-enactment of the Stratos jump then seeing it play out with legos.  It's pretty cool!

Everyone that has been to space has said how overwhelmed they were with the view.

I read this today and just had to share.  I'm a trekkie.  I've seen all of the movies and I've seen most of the episodes on TV.  I've always thought how brilliant Gene Roddenberry was.  Think of all the inventions that were used on the show that eventually came to be...

The most traveled space ship in the history of the world, Discovery, blasted off for the last time today from Cape Canaveral, Florida.  Discovery is on it's way to the International Space Station. Discovery is the oldest of the Space Shuttle fleet, which is set to be retired this year.  Atlantis and Endeavour still have one flight a piece left, after that the 30 year shuttle program will sadly com

As the NASCAR season gets ready to fire things up,  some scientists have come to the conclusion that the Heavens smell like a NASCAR race.  As crazy as that sounds, it makes sense.