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Asteroid Named 2012 Da14 Will Come Close To Earth
Asteroid 2012 Da14 – Despite early fears of a 150 foot wide asteroid slamming into our planet next year, 2012 Da14 was only discovered last month, with NASA scientists stating that it will come very close with a miss. If [...]

Higgs Boson Or ‘God Particle’ Has One Scientist Determined To Find Missing Link
Higgs Boson – Scientist have announced they are close to finding the elusive Higgs Boson, otherwise known as the ‘God Particle,’ that they believe is the missing ingredient to the start of everything in the universe from life to stars. [...]

Robonaut 2 Ready For Space Shuttle Discovery Launch
Robonaut 2 is NASA’s humanoid that will travel and work in space. Robonaut is version 2 and is ready for launch aboard space shuttle Discovery in February. The humanoid robot is so ready, in fact, that it’s going up ahead [...]

GJ1214b Newly Discovered Water Planet
Straight out of a Kevin Costner movie, scientist say that a planet named GJ1214b, discovered in 2009 by the MEarth Project, is covered almost completely in water with a thick steamy atmosphere. The researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have [...]

John Glenn Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Earth Orbit
On Monday astronaut John Glenn is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his original, manned earth orbit at a series of events being held at Ohio State University. On February 20th 1962, Glenn made the first space orbit around the earth [...]