NASA: The World Won’t End in 2012

Staff / Truthdig Jan 3, 2012 Sorry, all you Mayan-influenced doomsday enthusiasts, but it's looking to some of the great minds over at NASA as though 2012 isn't going to be particularly apocalypse-friendly as such. Ancient augury versus contemporary astronomy: Who will prevail? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Scientists List Their Favorite Discoveries of 2011

Staff / Truthdig Dec 31, 2011 Increasingly chaotic weather, potentially habitable planets and closing in on the elusive Higgs boson are just a few of the developments observed and discoveries made by the scientific community in 2011. The editors at LiveScience asked university scientists to describe what they think were the most important advances of the year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Curiosity

Cameron Cardow / Truthdig Nov 30, 2011 Dig deeper

This Is the Rocket That Will Take Us to Mars (video)

Staff / Truthdig Sep 15, 2011 Who said NASA is dead? The space agency has unveiled its new rocket design -- the most powerful ever if we go ahead and build it -- capable one day of dropping a human or two on Mars. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mission Impossible

Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China Aug 29, 2011 Dig deeper

A New Space Race

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2011 More than 40 years after man first stepped foot on the moon, a new race to that pie in the sky has begun, this time by groups of entrepreneurs looking to cash in on private ventures and $30 million in prizes offered by Google. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

USA Hits the Debt Ceiling

RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, The St. Louis Post Dispatch Jul 10, 2011 Dig deeper

Into the Sunset

RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, The St. Louis Post Dispatch Jul 10, 2011 Dig deeper

This Is What It Looks Like When a Black Hole Destroys a Galaxy

Staff / Truthdig May 23, 2011 And you think you've got problems. Take a look at nearby galaxy Centaurus A, which is in a losing battle with a black hole nearly 55 million times bigger (in terms of mass) than our sun. As it dies, its guts are being sprayed out in a trail of carnage 2 million light-years long, and NASA has the intergalactic snuff film to prove it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Hawking: Human Salvation Lies in Space

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2010 Despite what some global warming naysayers might still insist, it's not looking like planet Earth is going to be a super-comfy place to reside indefinitely. Now, superphysicist Stephen Hawking has suggested an alternative. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Still Searching for Water on the Backup Planet

Staff / Truthdig Jun 23, 2010 Our ability to evacuate to Mars once we're done wrecking the Earth depends on a lot, but the whole idea is a nonstarter if the fourth rock from the sun is dry. Ten years ago scientists discovered evidence of flowing water on Mars and we have reason to believe there's plenty of the frozen variety, but we still haven't caught Mars with its gullies wet. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Budget Space Motel or Just Hot Air?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 8, 2010 Out in the Nevada desert, in a complex encircled by barbed wire and guards, a millionaire motelier who believes in UFOs and prayer -- but not the Big Bang -- is building the world's first private space station. And it's inflatable. (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )