NASA

The Mayan Calendar dictates that Dec. 21, 2012 is doomsday, the start of a world apocalyptic event. While most people look at it as another prophecy that will not happen, some people believed that the prediction is true, including some famous celebrities.

NASA grieves over the loss of space spider “Nefertiti” last Monday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. after surviving 100 days in outer space aboard the International Space Station. The experiment mission was designed to conclude if a spider dependent on gravity while catching their food can settle in and survive in micro gravity.

The Mayan calendar has marked a conclusion of some sort with the end of its 13-baktun cycle. Some New Age followers say it is all about a spiritual re-awakening. Others are saying it has something to do with the sun's alignment in the Milky Way. For those who enjoy making social web memes, the Mayan calendar news is just another funny topic.

NASA scientists stated the moon’s surface has been receiving massive impacts from numerous asteroids and comets. Latest information obtained from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission reveal the nearly crushed lunar interior just below the surface. In conclusion, planet Earth as well as other terrestrial planets in the Solar System may have also endured the attacks of space rocks.

The long-running Voyager 1 Spacecraft of NASA reportedly entered a new layer of the solar system where scientists are unaware of. NASA scientists have now named this area “Magnetic Highway” and further claimed it is the final stop before the interstellar space. The astounding scientific discovery was made known to the public on Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, California.

NASA scientists captured images of near-Earth Asteroid 2007 PA8 with the Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California between October 31 and November 13, 2012. NASA described the asteroid in the released images as an irregularly shaped and stretched-out object with ridges and craters.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory HD camera captured the image of a massive sun eruption. Fortunately, the Earth’s surface is far away from the scorching plasma unleashed otherwise our planet might have been wiped out.

See the latest images from the heart of Hurricane Sandy and the damage it has been giving the East Coast so far.

Google faces greener pastures other than going global with its products. The top search engine company will soon go to outer space as NASA plans to send mini-satellites that are powered by Android phones.

The Transit of Venus has long been completed, but some Earthlings are still thrilled by having observed the rare event. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the scientists who shouted out on Twitter the relevance of the Transit of Venus in modern day space study.

The Transit of Venus has begun at 22:09 UTC on June 5th (8:09 a.m. June 6th in Australia) and photos of the astronomical phenomenon have surfaced online. We took a look at the photos being uploaded to Flickr, particularly those in The NASA Venus Transit Observing Challenge Pool.

The Transit of Venus pertains to the spectacular astronomical event when Venus takes a position between the Earth and the sun, thus, it will look like a small dot moving across the face of the sun. Here is a list of websites that will present webcasts covering the grand cosmic event.

The Big Bang Theory has received the highest rating of 1.87 million viewers from Australia for its 21st episode, "The Hawking Excitation," according to TV Tonight. Can the season finale top this?

The planet’s one and only moon is entering its full phase and it is about to make a dramatic show this Saturday. The lonely satellite will look like a super moon to people who could catch it at the right time. Here are seven things you need to know about the super moon of 2012.

Just in time to herald the holidays, two beautiful sights in space caught the interest of amateur and professional astronomers alike.

NASA's newest satellite from the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) recently took incredible high-resolution images of Earth covering the eastern area of North America until the northern part of Venezuela.

Liquid Robotics has launched four Wave Glider unmanned robots to chart the pacific last Nov. 17 2011 in San Francisco. It is their answer for the PacX Challenge, sponsored by Google Earth and Virgin Oceanic, where their findings will be available in Google Earth instantly for the public. The challenge in PacX is to cross the pacific, providing data about the ocean on it. The other participant of the challenge is Virgin Oceanic partnering along with Liquid Robotics to map out the Marianas Trench,...

NASA is funding a team of engineers to develop tractor beam technology in future probe missions. The space agency awarded Paul Stysley and team members Demetrios Poulios and Barry Coyl $100,000 to study three experimental techniques for using lasers to collect particle samples. Here are 5 tech from Star Trek that we commonly use today.

Colliding galaxies happen more often than previous estimates suggests according to recent study by astronomers.

Chinese astronomers recorded a mysterious "guest star" that appeared in the night sky in 185A.D. The ancient cosmic event which was described in the Chinese historical book "Book of the Later Han" had only been determined by scientists in the 1960s as the first ever recorded observation of a supernova. Now observations from NASA's Spritzer Space Telescope and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have pinpointed the star that the Chinese astronomers saw 2,000 years ago....

NASA caught an old woman selling a piece of moon stone in black markets. Joann Davis, 74, claimed that the little piece of moon rock, smaller than a grain of rice, was owned by her late husband. She said that Neil Armstrong gave the little piece of rock to her late husband when he was still an engineer on a company NASA built during Apollo era.

The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual peak on Sept. 12, spreading wide during the Southern Hemirsphere spring. The ozone hole stretched to 10.05 million square miles, the ninth largest ozone hole on record

NASA has released a series of pictures from satellite data visualizations that show how tens of millions of fires look from outer space. The fire observations by the MODearate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS for short, help scientists understand the effects of fire on the Earth's environment from local to global scales.

NASA has captured once again enchanting images of Aurora Australis from the International Space Station while passing over Indian Ocean on September 17. One of the Sept. 17 videos now circulating on the web shows wildfire images in Australia.