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.