Seeing Space Shuttle Atlantis Fills Reporter with Inspiration ... and Regret

Seeing Atlantis on public display is both exhilarating and sad. The retired space shuttle orbiter officially went on view Saturday (June 29) at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex as part of a new $100 million exhibition.

The mighty spaceship, which traveled to space and back 33 times over 26 years, is an awe-inspiring sight, especially when you're standing just feet away. The new exhibition displays space shuttle Atlantis as if she were in flight soaring over Earth, tilted at an angle with cargo bay doors open and robotic arm extended. The effect made me feel almost as if I was in space too.

Radiation Fears Shouldn't Hold Back Mars Colonization

Bas Lansdorp, Mars One co-founder and CEO, contributed this article to SPACE.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Mars One aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023, requiring no return mission.

New names of the moons of Pluto fourth and fifth

The fourth and fifth moon of Pluto was officially called by popular vote Kerberos and Styx, respectively, said today the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

The moons, discovered in 2011 and 2012 were known at first as P4 and P5, but the team leader responsible for the discovery, made by Hubble telescope observations from NASA, decided to organize a contest to baptize.

Large Antarctic Crater Created by Underground Flood

The buried lakes under Antarctica's ice cap can unleash massive floods, just like glacial lakes on land, scientists are starting to realize. One recent deluge sent as much water as is in Scotland's Loch Ness flowing under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near the Cook Ice Shelf, a new study reports.

Nearly 380 lakes have been discovered under Antarctica's ice, 

Remember - Curiosity writes an space history

It centimeter big hole Curiosity robot on Mars has drilled. This is the first time ever that there has been a hole of a robot on; another planet than Earth. Now we're halfway through 2013 and the next two weeks we take a look back at some of the most exciting Astronomy news we sent out this year.

The original article was from 11th February.

Landing platform Mighty Eagle gets ready to land on the asteroid

Robotic landing platform NASA Lander Prototype, which is the working title Mighty Eagle, which literally means "mighty eagle", has entered a new, more active phase of the trial.

The first flight of a series of new tests lander was made in early August. Now, however, began a more intensive testing of the device directly at the Center Marshall Space Flight Center, which is located in Huntsville, Alabama.

At the rover Curiosity damaged wind sensor

NASA experts reported the first problem that has arisen with the Mars rover Curiosity. Specifically the problem is that the rover is damaged wind sensor on one of the masts. According to the assertions of experts NASA, this damage will not significantly affect the operation of the rover as a whole as only able to reduce the accuracy of some of the measurements, but the same cannot eliminate them completely.