The camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope just got its approval for a final design phase this week, which is exiting news for all you space fans out there. When it's finished, the LSST camera will be the largest digital camera ever made, and it'll be able to image the entire visible sky every single week.

Later today a group of high profile billionaires will be officially announcing the formation of a new company called Planetary Resources. Their mission? To mine near-Earth asteroids for whatever resources they may hold

Sure, satellites have been used for many important projects that have pushed humankind forward, the least of them being satellite television. But now, they've finally fulfilled their true destinies: counting penguins

New analysis of an experiment performed by the Viking landers suggests that evidence of microbial life in the Martian soil may have been detected 36 years ago. As one of the authors of this new paper puts it: "on the basis of what we've done so far, I'd say I'm 99 percent sure there's life there." Whoa .

Producing a good whiskey is very much a science.

Since the beginning of time, mankind has been bored and annoyed by the moon.

Last month, an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) arrived at the International Space Station with a load of oxygen, water, food, clothing, hardware, fuel and spare parts. One of the resident astronauts aboard the station snapped this image of the ATV firing its thrusters as it moved in for docking.

Space-based solar power has long promised to be a cheap and eco-friendly source of energy for Earth, and for just as long, it hasn't happened. This new concept for a giant solar microwave space flower may look crazy, but NASA liked it enough to throw some money at making it real.

If you are starting to plan your summer vacation and you are a space nut then this is the map for you. You can easily see if one of NASA's retired spacecraft is located near where you'll be staying — or if you are totally hardcore — you can plan your location near where a spacecraft is housed.

It's going to be a very, very long time before we have a telescope big enough to spot little green men waving at us from the surface of another world . What we might be able to spot in the near future, though, are their farms and gardens, with a spectral technique that looks for the signatures of alien plants in polarized light.