Space, Astronomy, Astronaut, NASA News from Kepea

Time.com - Even before the polls closed, it was clear Romney had reduced Gingrich to a thin, bitter pile of moon dust

SPACE.com - A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side — a view people on Earth never see.

SPACE.com - Many busy people nowadays use DVRs to allow them to "time shift": recording TV programs today to view at another, more convenient, time. But did you know that you can do the same with the stars?

SPACE.com - Back in July an ocean exploration team led by Swedish researchers found what some suggested may be a flying saucer on the sea floor. There were even skid marks behind the large object that suggested it may have moved across, or crashed on, the sea floor.  

SPACE.com - Romanian police have arrested a man believed to be TinKode, the notorious hacker responsible for several daring, high-profile cyberattacks, including last year's breach of NASA's servers.

SPACE.com - Scientists may be one step closer to unraveling the mystery of sunspots — the dark and magnetic blemishes on the surface of our nearest star.

ContributorNetwork - The latest end of the world craze concerns the Mayan Calendar that ends a 144,000 day cycle on Dec. 21, the winter solstice. While many people claim this presages the end of the world, NASA is moving to debunk that theory.

SPACE.com - Protecting future astronauts from radiation, generating power from the sun's light and heat, and creating better optical sensors are some of the top 16  needs NASA focus on in the next five years, a new report suggests.

SPACE.com - The wispy clouds of a distant nebula bursting with newborn stars take on an eerie face-like shape sculpted by stellar winds in a new photo snapped by a telescope in Chile.

SPACE.com - While the Smithsonian gets ready to receive the retired space shuttle Discovery for display this spring, NASA, together with archivists spread across four states, is preparing to preserve the historic orbiter and its sister ships digitally and on paper.