http://www.nss.org/legislative/positions/NSS_Position_Paper_Planetary_Defense_2014.pdfRead more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09dec_vestaplanet/

NASA's Dawn spacecraft spent the last four years voyaging to asteroid Vesta - and may have found a planet.

Eat your black, wizened heart out, Mike Brown! XD

Paul Spudis’ Plan for a Sustainable and Affordable Lunar Base

It’s long been a dream to have a human settlement on the Moon, but in this age of budget cuts and indecisive plans for NASA’s future, a Moon base may seem too costly and beyond our reach. However, noted lunar scientist Dr. Paul Spudis from the Lunar and Planetary Institute and a ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/nasa-space-launch-system-sls_n_962051.html

NASA announced on Wednesday the design of the Space Launch System, or SLS, a rocket that will carry humans to destinations that include asteroids and ( Read more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/15jul_dawn2/

On July 15, NASA's ion-propelled Dawn probe will become the first spacecraft to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. Dawn will orbit Vesta for one Earth-year, studying the ( Read more... )

http://www.space.com/11310-huge-asteroid-2005-yu55-passing-earth-november.html

Mark your calendars for an impressive and upcoming flyby of an asteroid that’s one of the larger potentially perilous space rocks in the heavens - in terms of ( Read more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/29mar_vesta/

Trolls, take note: No, this isn't a rant on the die-off of bees and other pollinators, so lower those flamethrowers and git.

In his book Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, Rowan Jacobsen points out that the critical phenomenon in the life of honeybees is the hive, i.e., the colony, not the individual ( Read more... )

Robert Brockway, a columnist and blogger for Cracked.com and webmaster of iFightRobots.com. has produced one of the most fascinating and downright terrifying books it has ever been my (mis)fortune to run across. Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead, a collection of his well-researched essays on ( Read more... )

http://www.cracked.com/article_19011_5-sci-fi-apocalypses-government-actually-planning-for.html