- Amazon's Jeff Bezos confirms: We got an Apollo 11 rocket engine!
- World's first mission to the Moon's south pole announced
- House panel approves cutting NASA spending by $1.1 billion
- The universe as you've never seen it before: Photographer creates incredible pictures of what it would look like if planets were closer
- The beauty of space photography
- Sun Primer: Why NASA Scientists Observe the Sun in Different Wavelengths
- Mars Had Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere 4 Billion Years Ago, Shows New Study
- Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass
- Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and Baffling Region at Edge of Solar System
- Milky Way's black hole pulling in gas cloud
- Astronomers Identify 514 of the Most Powerful Objects in the Universe, Have No Clue What 65 of Them Are
- Sabre rocket engine could open up access to space as never before—"A £60m pledge from the UK government puts Reaction Engines' Sabre rocket on course to change space exploration for ever."
- International team strengthens Big Bang Theory
- 'Star Trek' tricorder becomes the real McCoy—There's quite a bit of interest in it.
- Classic 'Star Trek' control panel gets modern facelift
- New moons of Pluto named Kerberos and Styx but popular choice Vulcan snubbed
- 38 Things We Learned from the 'Star Trek II' Commentary—"The more takes Meyer made Shatner do, the better his acting became."
- Nuclear plant spoofs 'Star Trek'
- Canada's Former Defence Minister Claims that Aliens Are Real
- Self-replicating alien space probes could already be in our solar system, say mathematicians
- Mulder and Scully at San Diego Comic-Con: the 13 best X-Files episodes ever
- Blast from the Past: Why Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea—"When time travel finally becomes possible, we might want to think twice about getting it on. According to a new study on tiny shrimp (Artemia franciscana), sex with partners from a different time could kill you."
- Great Scott! Iranian scientist Ali Razeghi claims to have invented 'time machine' that can predict the future with 98% accuracy
- What time machine? Iranian news agency quietly deletes a report that Iran had built one.
- Time Travel in Movies
- Penny Arcade: Chronotheft
- NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say—"The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the 'public interest,' does not breach the constitutional rights of Americans and cannot be challenged in a court of law."
- Snowden be damned: Government renews US call record order—"On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a statement saying that its authorization to compel telephone companies to share metadata has been renewed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)."
- Why Spy on Everybody? Because "You Need the Haystack To Find the Needle," Says NSA Chief
- Security experts Bruce Schneier and Mikko Hypponen on the NSA, PRISM and why we should be worried
- Transparency Fail—"'Most transparent administration in history' releases most redacted document in history." The ACLU was looking into whether text messages are also being turned over to the government.
- Court Tells Reporter to Testify in Case of Leaked C.I.A. Data—"A federal appeals court ruled that James Risen, an author and a reporter for The New York Times, must testify against a former government official charged with giving him classified information." Goodbye freedom of the press. NYT
- Ex-CIA chief: What Edward Snowden did—Calls Greenwald a "co-conspirator."
- Journalist warns of 'explosive' news from cache Snowden leaked
- Whistleblowing Is the New Civil Disobedience: Why Edward Snowden Matters
- The US state vs whistleblowers - why Snowden is not alone
- Op-Ed: The US Whistleblower Act—"We are witnessing what one might call the unwritten US Whistleblower Act in action. It is not an Act meant to protect whistleblowers but the opposite, involving aggressive moves meant to force Russia to hand over whistleblower Snowden for prosecution."
- Manning trial: US government fails to chill whistleblowers with harsh punishments
