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    August 16, 2012

    Q&A: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne On Stephen Colbert, Ke$ha, And An Inadvertent Game Of Telephone With Lightning Bolt

    Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne dreams weird and hard and big. What often starts of as a whimsical vision might just end up as a new world record (for the most live concerts in 24 hours) or a limited-edition vinyl release infused with the blood of other artists (as was the case for 2011's The Flamin ... More >>

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    August 5, 2012

    Want Times Square to Be More Crowded? Air the Mars Rover Landing There Tonight

    A few weeks ago, my roommate and I decided to take a late-night bike ride up the West Side Highway. It was around midnight when we hit 59th Street and headed east towards Central Park. Dangerous, yes, but the air was calm until we decided to advance on the brilliant idea of biking through Times Squa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2012

    Google and James Cameron: Asteroid Miners?

    Looks like Bruce Willis's mining team from Armageddon could be employed again. In a relatively strange press release, according to the Wall Street Journal, a new, fittingly named company called Planetary Resources, Inc. has teamed up with none other than the high officials at Goo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    NASA's Kepler Mission Finds 26 New Planets in 11 Different Solar Systems

    NASA announced on Thursday that it has discovered 26 new planets in 11 different solar systems. This brings the total number of confirmed planets to 729, with about 2,300 additional possibilities. These particular planets were discovered as part of the Kepler mission, a $600 million program which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2012

    Watch a Meteor Shower Wednesday Morning, You've Got Nothing Better to Do

    For a couple of hours after 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, the Quadrantids meteor shower will be putting on a show for anyone willing to get up (or stay up) for it. According to NASA, "the Quadrantids have a maximum rate of about 100 per hour," which, weather permitting, should make for a pretty cool sig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2011

    Russian Mars Probe Will Probably be the Latest Thing to Crash into Earth

    via Wikipedia​In September, NASA's UARS satellite plummeted back to Earth, scattering debris over the Pacific Ocean. In October, Germany's ROSAT orbiting telescope reentered our atmosphere and crashed somewhere in Southeast Asia. Following this pattern of space crap falling back to Earth comes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2011

    Satellite Has Fallen, Location Unknown; 43% Think Obama Is Better Than Bush; Putin To Run For Prez Of Russia Again

    ​UARS -- the 6-ton satellite that just maybe was going to hit you -- fell back to earth sometime between 11:23 p.m. Friday and 1:09 a.m. Saturday EDT, NASA has said. But even though it "penetrated the atmosphere" over the Pacific Ocean, when and where it exactly fell is still unknown, so let t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Falling Satellite Probably Won't Hit You Today

    ​Although we weren't sure about this earlier this week, NASA has said that UARS, a 6-ton bus-sized satellite expected to break into more than a hundred pieces, issuing forth a 500-mile debris footprint as it falls (which it is expected to do sometime Friday afternoon), will NOT be passing over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2011

    Collision of Galaxies Imminent

    via NASA's Image of the Day Gallery​The galaxies you see in the image to the right, VV 340 North (top) and VV 340 South (bottom), are careening towards each other and on a cosmic collision course. The Hubble Telescope took the photo and it shows the two galaxies "in the early stages of their i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Was the Space Shuttle Program a Success?

    ​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we wake up, rub the sleep out of our eyes, roll over in bed and ask the Space Shuttle, "So, now what?" (We had sex with the Sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Government Shutdown Totally Messin' With Space Shuttle Launch

    ​The government will possibly shutdown tonight at midnight, and you've surely read about how this will affect your life. Tax refunds may be delayed, which is annoying, but the IRS is good for it, right? National parks will close, but everyone knows Yosemite doesn't get poppin' till late May. M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Damn Space Garbage Forcing Astronauts to Take Cover This Afternoon

    ​Last month we reported on the growing danger of space garbage. Today at about 4:21 p.m. EST, three members of the International Space Station will have a close call with said garbage, Space.com reports. American and Italian astronauts, as well as a Russian cosmonaut, will have to take shelter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    'Those Ain't Moon Rocks': Cocaine Found at NASA Space Center

    via​Since the advent of space travel, kids have wanted nothing more than to be astronauts. Now kids may really want to be astronauts, without knowing exactly why. The AP (via Huffington Post) reports that 4.2 grams of cocaine were discovered at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This would expla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Space Shuttle Needs a New Home: May We Suggest Us?

    ​As we reported a couple of weeks ago, the space shuttle Discovery is making its final mission. Where it goes after space, however, is still the subject of a fervent debate. The New York Times reports that as many as 21 museums and institutions have submitted proposals to house the shuttle as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Discovery's Last Mission, a Eulogy for the Shuttle Program

    photo via NASA​It's the beginning of the end for NASA's shuttle fleet. Tonight at 4:50pm EST, Space Shuttle Discovery will slip the surly bonds of Earth for the 39th and final time. The oldest of the space agency's three operational orbiters will be making its last trip; a delivery run for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2011

    Milky Way Has 500 Million Theoretically Habitable Planets

    ​Scientists have figured out that our galaxy, the lovely Milky Way, has over 50 billion planets. Also mind-blowing: 500 million of those planets are in the zone where life could theoretically exist.

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    NASA Asked to Fix New York's 911 System

    ​New York is asking NASA to fix their beleaguered 911 system, the Daily News reports. The space agency is better known for doing things like going into space, but city officials hope they can help troubleshoot the out-of-synch and over-budget Emergency Communications Transformation Program as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    NASA Is Breaking The Law By Not Building a Rocket

    cosmobc​NASA has been allocated $8 billion to revamp its obsolete shuttle program's rocket, and it has till 2016 to do so. CNN reports (with the hilarious headline, "NASA says its pockets not deep enough for new rocket." Pocket rocket? That's a boner!) that NASA officials think the budget isn' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Asteroid Heading for Earth Will Kill Us All!!!!...Or Not

    ​The internet is buzzing over the recent Russian report that an asteroid is going to hit Earth in 2036 and kill you and your children. If you don't have kids, this menacing rock from space will kill any children you are planning on having. The asteroid -- named 99942 Apophis -- is larger than ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2011

    NASA Takes Images of Sun's Backside

    New imaging technology has allowed us to see the sun's "angry face."​For the first time, NASA has been able to image the entire sun from top to bottom, front to back. This is so that we can keep track of "coronal mass ejections" (eruptions of hot deadly sun-stuff) that could be aimed right at Eart ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Mark Kelly to Pilot Endeavour Mission

    Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in Arizona on January 8, will lead the space shuttle Endeavor on its final mission scheduled for launch on April 19. "She would be very comfortable with the decision I made," Kelly said in a press conference this afternoon. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Tomorrow, the Moon and Sun and Earth Will Behave Unusually!

    via NASA/Mr. Eclipse/Fred Espenak​Science nerds, astronomy fans, and people who like to look up at the sky and see things: There will be a total lunar eclipse Tuesday morning -- meaning that the sun, the Earth, and the moon will all align, with the moon entirely in the Earth's shadow. This is ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 8, 2010
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    December 2, 2010

    Arsenic and Old Space: NASA to Announce New Form of Life on Earth?

    via L.A. TimesMono Lake​Gizmodo is reporting that NASA's big announcement later today will be that a new form of life has been found in the harsh environment of California's Mono Lake: a bacteria that is based not on the familiar six chemicals of all other life on earth, but one based on arsen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    NASA Bores Us to Tears: Bacteria Eats Arsenic, Probably Shits It, Too

    ​Well, this is turning into a letdown of the microbe-on-Mars kind. Just hours ago, we were on the edge of our seats waiting for a big announcement that NASA had found some new form of life on Earth, one that didn't share the six elements that the rest of us find necessary to live and breathe. ... More >>

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    October 27, 2010
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    June 8, 2010

    NASA Introduces Unfortunately Named "Face in Space" Program

    ​NASA has kind of a weird promo going on called "Face in Space," not to be confused with the Nicolas Cage/John Travolta thriller Face/Off. Basically, you can submit a photo of your face (or, if you somehow don't own a photo of yourself, just your name) via the website and have your visage (or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Senator Thomas Duane Wants a Spaceship, Bad

    ​New York Senator Thomas Duane really wants a space shuttle in New York. And so do the Boy Scouts. Who are we to say no? Yesterday the Senate unanimously approved a resolution Duane spearheaded that endorses the Intrepid Museum's application to permanently display one of NASA's three retiring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Things That Could Ruin Your Day, But Won't: Death by Asteroid

    Potential Proctologists Association campaign ad waiting to happen.​You know what asteroids and hemorrhoids have in common? Four letters at the end and the ability to severely fuck up one's day. You should enjoy today knowing that you missed at least one of them.

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Gossip Folks: The Oprah-Rielle-Blowjobs-DMB Connection

    ​Consider this column still "in beta" or whatever, but we're gonna start rounding up some of our local gossip for you. We don't have a better title for it right now, and if you have one, we'd love to hear your ideas. In the meantime, we've got Oprah's big "get," Cindy Adams and Her War at Home ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Obama to Start Privatizing Space, Which Should Please Conservatives, But Probably Won't

    Right-wingers were angry that the Obama Administration was declining to finance new trips to the moon. But since they're true believers in the free market, maybe they'll be happy to hear that the President's new budget includes a scheme to privatize space travel. The Washington Post learns from th ... More >>

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    December 1, 2009
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    November 15, 2009

    A thing to do on Monday and Tuesday for (completely) free

    ​If you're out Monday or Tuesday night, look up in the sky and watch the shooting stars. The Leonid Meteor Shower is going to be on view Nov. 16 and 17, and NASA says it's going to be quite a show this year.

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2009

    NASA finds water on the moon

    ​NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Mission (LCROSS) probe discovered organic materials and "significant" amounts of water at the bottom of the Cabeus crater near the South Pole of the moon.

  • Voice Choices

    August 18, 2009

    CALLING PLANET EARTH

    N.A.S.A. touch down at Bowery Ballroom

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Is the Universe Shaped Like a Pringle? Or Is It More of a Bugle?

    NASA/JPL-Caltech/vages/flickr​ New Scientist appears to have snacks on the brain as it ponders the shape of the universe. While scientists have long assumed the cosmos in shaped like a sphere (a bacon gumball, perhaps?), alternative theories suggest the universe may be shaped like a doughnut, ... More >>

  • Film

    June 10, 2009
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    May 21, 2009

    How Do You Spell Progress? P-E-E

    Astronauts aboard the space station toasted themselves and their colleagues after the successful completion of a recycling system that transforms urine and sweat into potable water. Foregoing champagne, the spacemen drank to the event by sipping some of the very water that had been recycled from t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Annals of Hilarious Press Releases: "3 Doors Down Go Galactic!"

    You wouldn't know it, but the intrepid cosmonauts above--those valiant heroes drinking coffee, and seeing how far back the 'ol office chair goes--are part of something greater than themselves. See: 3 Doors Down Go Galactic! Early this morning, NASA woke the Atlantis crew with the 3 Doors Down hi ... More >>

  • Film

    August 28, 2007

    Rocket Men

    Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

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    June 11, 2005
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    May 31, 2005
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    December 7, 2004
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    February 4, 2003
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    April 23, 2002
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    March 13, 2001
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    October 17, 2000

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Radical Web

    Where to Find Government Secrets, Loch Ness Pics, and a Jesus Dress-Up Doll

  • News

    August 10, 1999

    Read My Rips

    Clinton Confronts Governors

  • News

    August 3, 1999

    Cruising Altitude

    A Visionary Inventor Takes the High Road— and Builds a Car That Flies

  • News

    January 19, 1999

    Moderately Republican

    The Power of the Maine-stream

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