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Cold, Little Comet Is No Match for the Big, Hot Sun (184 diggs) A small, newly discovered comet will not get a chance to enjoy its fame for long. As you can see in this image sequence obtained by NASA’s Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory, the comet is on a collision course with the sun. Things will not end well for the comet, which will burn.

APOD: 2010 March 13 - Centaurus A (339 diggs) A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Collision Course With Earth (351 diggs) Gliese 710 should arrive sometime in...

Physicists seeking to shed more light on dark matter (348 diggs) Using a massive detector buried deep in the Japanese Alps, the T2K project will study the oscillation pattern of neutrinos -- ghost-like particles that make up a large part of the bulk of the universe.

Fastest (and Most Compact) Stellar Spinner Confirmed (222 diggs) HM Cancri has been confirmed as a binary system of two white dwarfs orbiting one other so close, they complete one orbit every 5.4 minutes.

3-D Printing Whole Buildings in Stone...in Space (408 diggs) Enrico Dini is building sandcastles on the moon. His giant 3-D printer is the first of its kind with the potential to print whole buildings, and it makes them out of solid rock, cutting down a thousand-year-long process into a few minutes. It uses sand, but someday it'll use moon dust.

Forget Avatar: Hubble 3D Is a Religious Experience. (889 diggs) Courtesy of Hubble’s cameras – capable of rendering stars emitting light of various wavelengths that reflects their life-stages — we are presented with a far-reaching mosaic of the cosmos, an image threatening in its beauty to Van Gogh. - Hubble 3-D is a must see.

Russia Is Making Flying Saucers. DUN-DUN-DUN! (364 diggs) Russia’s latest endeavor to produce commercial grade lighter-than-air aircraft seems a little strange. The “aerostatic thermoballasted vehicle” from Locomo Sky looks like something straight out of a 1950s UFO movie.

Einstein's Gravity Confirmed on a Cosmic Scale (587 diggs) We may finally have proof that general relativity applies to cosmic bodies great and small, and that dark matter and dark energy are real. The theory of gravity proposed by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago can explain the dance of galaxies around one another just as well as it can model the motion of planets around the sun.

APOD: 2010 March 11 - Yukon Aurora with Star Trails (339 diggs) A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

15 Strange and Awesome Facts About Outer Space (747 diggs) As those who have kept in touch with the cosmos will tell you, space is one damn interesting place, chock-full of wacky phenomena.

NASA space shuttle gearing up for big phase-out (314 diggs) NASA is working to finish out the space shuttle program with some key missions. First, the next space shuttle, Discovery, currently is sitting on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Water discovered in Apollo moon rocks (348 diggs) Scientists have discovered tiny amounts of water in some of the famous moon rocks brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts.Recently NASA crashed two spacecraft into the moon and orbiters scanned the lunar surface for telltale light signatures.

Through The Lens Of A Space Shuttle Photographer (Pics) (317 diggs) Ben Cooper combines photography with rocket science.

Better Than Apollo: The Space Program We Almost Had (344 diggs) SAN FRANCISCO — In the late 1950s, American space companies jumped into a headlong race to build an aerospace industry that could launch missiles across the world and rockets above.

Will Lunar Hole Become First Settlement on the Moon? (445 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 (488 diggs) The ingredients for life as we know it have been found in the Orion Nebula.

'Black Hole Blowback' Could Impact Galactic Evolution (411 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 (410 diggs) Here is one detailed explanation of shooting stars. (1 minute 58 seconds)

Physicist says warp speed will kill you (1,060 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) (1,237 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 (387 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] (385 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 (722 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.. (539 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.