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ISS

ISS Gets A Four-Year Extension

I’m not sure if you knew that the International Space Station had a pre-planned death date. Maybe that’s being melodramatic. …

10 years ago

return of the fly

Sci-Fi Movie Producer Bernard Glasser Dies At 89

B-movie science fiction producer Bernard Glasser died in Los Angeles this past Thursday. Glasser mainly produced low-budget sci-fi films from …

10 years ago

ganymede

Russia Plans To Send Probe To Ganymede

Jupiter is set to give Mars and Saturn a run for their money when it comes to being the most …

10 years ago

NASA JACO

NASA Scientists Control Robotic Arm With Kinect And Oculus Rift

Robots in space — two great tastes that taste great together. They might go to Mars ahead of the humans …

10 years ago

The Day the Earth Smiled

Cassini Offers A New Glimpse Of The Pale Blue Dot

Given my fascination with the universe, my love for Carl Sagan, and my hopes that the reboot of Cosmos will …

10 years ago

The Most Amazing Science Stories Of 2013

Humanity at its best.

10 years ago

CosmosNeil

All I Want For Christmas Is The Success of Cosmos

Neil DeGrasse Tyson walks in Carl Sagan’s footsteps.

10 years ago

NEOWISE image

Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft NEOWISE Is Back In Business

Forget diamonds — asteroids are the hottest rocks out there. And unlike most objects, celestial or otherwise, asteroids have a …

10 years ago

Hubble Captures Water Vapor Plumes On Europa

Scientists consider Jupiter’s moon Europa one of the best candidates for harboring alien life in the solar system. Its atmosphere …

10 years ago

Clarke-feat

Arthur C. Clarke: A Birthday Retrospective

We celebrate one of science fiction’s “Big Three.”

10 years ago

Monkey Business: Iran Sends Primate Into Space

Iran made the news today, but thankfully not for their nuclear program or economic sanctions. Today Middle Eastern nation announced …

10 years ago

Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s Superhero Robot

We’ve done lots of posts here on GFR about NASA, many of which bemoan the state and the budget of …

10 years ago

Earth rise over the moon

Overview Video Has Astronauts Talking About How Space Changed Their View Of The World

If you’ve seen Gravity, you undoubtedly spent some of that time marveling at the views of Earth. Who cares if …

10 years ago

Scientists Appeal To Congress To Support Technology To Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Given how many candidate planets Kepler has identified, and the recently announced estimate that billions of habitable planets may exist …

10 years ago

Colonies
asteroid mining

Asteroid Mining Could Launch Us Even Deeper Into Space

There’s been quite a bit of talk of asteroids lately, and not in the usual one’s-about-to-slam-into-Earth-thus-obliterating-all-life-dear-god-Bruce-Willis-can-you-save-us kind of way. Well, …

10 years ago

Robots Run This Space-Themed Chinese Hotel

Okay, China. You win. A space-themed hotel is pretty badass, but staffing it with robots? Total genius. Given that most …

10 years ago

ESA video

This Video Of A Soyuz Capsle Is The Closest We’ll Get To Experiencing Reentry

If you’re anything like me, you’ve fantasized about being an astronaut. Maybe this stopped when you saw Gravity, or maybe …

10 years ago

Sagan

Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan: A Tribute

You’re much missed, Carl.

10 years ago

P5 comet

It’s A Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s a Six-Tailed Comet?

The more we learn about space, the more we realize how much we still don’t know, like how the P/2013 …

10 years ago

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga Set To Perform In Space In 2015

We probably shouldn’t be too surprised by this. If there were any performer ready to sing in space, it would …

10 years ago

Milky Way
Nathan Gray

10-Year-Old Discovers Ancient Supernova

The Gray family of Nova Scotia, Canada has some intense sibling rivalry going on. But unlike with my brother and …

10 years ago

asteroid

UN Approves Asteroid Protection Guidelines And Japan Tests An Asteroid-Blasting Space Cannon

Between huge meteor chunks being recovered from a Russian lake, planned asteroid mining, and space rocks that fly by and …

10 years ago

Spiral

Five Sci-Fi Movies With Halloween Hearts

Halloween makes a freaky backdrop for sci-fi fun.

10 years ago

Dragon

SpaceX Is One Step Closer To Manned Flight Capability

Back in 2009, NASA began the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), designed to promote private sector development of human spaceflight. The …

10 years ago

Space Racers And NASA Aim To Take Over Preschool Entertainment

If you have children you’ve probably been inundated by one program after the other that teaches kids how to count, …

10 years ago

Orion capsule mock-up

NASA Prepares Orion For Unmanned Flight Tests

Despite the government shutdown, NASA was able to continue working on the Orion, NASA’s next manned spacecraft. Before any humans …

10 years ago

Lloyd

Great Scott! Christopher Lloyd Turns 75: Today In Science & Science Fiction

Christopher Lloyd (October 22, 1938) This is heavy! Christopher Lloyd has had a long and esteemed career over the past …

10 years ago