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Will Lunar Hole Become First Settlement on the Moon? (247 diggs) An international team of scientists has discovered an enormous hole that may well become the base for a moon colony. The lunar “lava tube” is not a new find, but the lava sheet that protects it and appears not to be prone to collapse, makes it different from all the others.

All of Life’s Ingredients Found in Orion Nebula (472 diggs) The ingredients for life as we know it have been found in the Orion Nebula.

'Black Hole Blowback' Could Impact Galactic Evolution (391 diggs) Languishing in a galactic nuclei 50 million light years away is a voracious eater, destroying stars, but possibly building its host galaxy...twice the mass of the supermassive black hole that lives in the center of the Milky Way. The NGC 1068 supermassive black hole is incredibly active

Where Shooting Stars Come From (403 diggs) Here is one detailed explanation of shooting stars. (1 minute 58 seconds)

Physicist says warp speed will kill you (1,015 diggs) One prominent Johns Hopkins physicist claims that even if we could figure out how to travel at near-light speeds, we'd be vaporized--all because of some stray hydrogen atoms.

Would a Lava Lamp work on Jupiter? (Video) (1,208 diggs) Would a Lava Lamp work on Jupiter with its higher gravity? This guy builds a giant centrifuge in his living room to find out...

Stephen Hawking: Future of Space- Manned vs Robotic Missions (364 diggs) Will unmanned robotic missions be able to detect weird microscopic life-forms they are not programmed to recognize that might be lurking below the surface of Saturn's Titan, or beneath the murky seas of Jupiter's jumbo moon, Europa?

Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision Seen From Space [GIF] (379 diggs) The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica is captured here in an animation.

Dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth (653 diggs) An infrared space telescope has spotted several very dark asteroids that have been lurking unseen near Earth's orbit. Their obscurity have kept them hidden from surveys designed to detect things that might hit our planet.

The Gorilla On Mars Isn't The Weirdest Thing We've Spotted.. (472 diggs) All hail King Kong of Mars! Eagle-eyed experts spotted this gorilla in one of the pictures sent back by the Spirit Rover. Of course, NASA's trying to cover it up. But it's not the weirdest Martian we've found so far.

Is That Saturn's Moon Titan or Utah? (370 diggs) Planetary scientists, who have been puzzling for years over the surface features on Saturn's moon Titan, have now found some recognizable analogies to a type of terrain on Earth known as karst topography.

Beautiful Time Lapse of the Milky Way Over Hawaii (1,574 diggs) In all the messiness of life's day-to-day, one tends to forget the majesty that is the universe in a grand scale. Let this stunning time-lapse of the Milky Way over Hawaii remind you of your insignificance.

Senator Proposes Shuttle-Extension Hail Mary (341 diggs) The turmoil and political maneuvering over the future of NASA continues in the wake of the Obama administration's cancellation of the Constellation

Herschel Finds Possible Life-Enabling Molecules in Space (385 diggs) The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.

The World's Most Severe Snowstorms (12 Pics from Space) (274 diggs) NASAs Earth Observatory uses powerful satellites to capture the movements, evolution, and beauty of the earth, from snowstorms and earthquakes, as seen from space. Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite.

Aurora Borealis As Seen From The International Space Station (708 diggs) A very beautiful natural phenomena.

Surface of the Red Planet [PICS] (434 diggs) Stunning images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite.

NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge (PIC) (501 diggs) Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices.

The Sun Is White Not Yellow (868 diggs) For you graphics people or web developers out there, the exact color of the sun is #fff5f2.

Virgin Galactic sees space test flights in 2011 (458 diggs) Virgin Galactic is aiming to launch test flights into space in 2011, but does not need additional financing after selling a stake to Abu Dhabi's Abaar last year, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

NASA Finds Up to 1.3 Trillion Pounds of Lunar Ice (655 diggs) Data gathered from a NASA radar on board an Indian spacecraft indicate that more than 40 craters permanently in shadows contain as much as 600 million cubic meters of ice.

M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion (PIC) (421 diggs) An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78 and other bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion. The dark filamentary dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the light of several bright blue stars that formed recently in the nebula.

Slope Streaks in Acheron Fossae on Mars (PIC) (326 diggs) What creates these picturesque dark streaks on Mars? No one knows for sure. A leading hypothesis is that streaks like these are caused by fine grained sand sliding down the banks of troughs and craters. Pictured above, dark sand appears to have flowed hundreds of meters down the slopes of Acheron Fossae.

New Look at Newton's 2nd Law Could Explain Away Dark Matter (459 diggs) And all it takes to measure is a simple spinning disk here on Earth. When reached for comment, Dark Matter says: "Come on, you almost found me!"

RIP Robert McCall, Picasso of the Space Age [w/ Slideshow] (386 diggs) You may not know his name, but you definitely know the artwork of Robert McCall, who died on Friday at the age of 90 in Arizona. His ecstatic visions of the past, present, and future of space exploration have been on U.S. postage stamps, NASA mission patches, and the walls of the Smithsonian.