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Earth Braces for Inevitable Martian Attack as NASA Prepares to Broadcast...
Aliens can't even handle this. (Photo: Last.fm) When one considers the ultimate symbol of American progress and invention, there is really only one person who comes to mind: Black Eyed Peas singer...
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NASA Scientist and Internet Crush Bobak Ferdowsi Hosting a Radio Show Called...
(Photo: NewNowNext) It's been a few weeks since we last checked in with super-studly NASA scientist Bobak Ferdowsi, who became an Internet sensation overnight for helping land the Mars Curiosity rover...
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Richard Branson Intends to Colonize Mars Whether You Like It or Not
(Photo: Chatter-fest) Though commercial space initiatives have a whiff of sadness about them (RIP lots of NASA funding, RIP the space craze of the '50s), space geeks like your Betabeat reporters are...
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Curiosity Rover Joins Foursquare, Checks in From Mars
(Photo: Foursquare) In a delightfully geeky publicity stunt for New York-based location checkin service, NASA tweeted moments ago that the Curiosity Rover has joined Foursquare. "Guess who just joined...
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Bill Nye Needs Your Help to Restore NASA’s Space Exploration Budget
(Photo: YouTube) Millennial icon Bill Nye the Science Guy, whom this reporter once had the immense pleasure of interviewing, currently serves as the CEO of the Planetary Society. There, he's worked to...
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Booting Up: Trampoline to Work Edition
(Photo: Caters News Agency) The Gmail app for iPad and iPhone got an upgrade. [Gmail Blog] Despite the cluttered app market, half of all revenue from the app store goes to just 25 developers. [The...
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So You Wanna Be a Martian Colonist
Can't wait for the remake of The Searchers. Let's face it: Most of us aren't going to make NASA's rather stringent cut for the space program. So how's a girl supposed to fulfill her destiny to rule...
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Elon Musk Would Like You to Know ‘I Am Not the Kale Eating Overlord of Mars’
News has been swirling that PayPal vet and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is hellbent on creating a colony on Mars specifically targeting vegetarians. PETA, of course, immediately jumped on the idea,...
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The European Space Agency Is Working on 3D-Printed Moon Houses
Cozy! (Photo: Foster + Partner) From the continent that brought you IKEA comes the latest in lunar home fabrication. In the hopes of eventually landing some folks on Earth's satellite, the European...
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Ready Your Audition Tape for Mars One, the Colonization Scheme That’s Also a...
Can't wait for the remake of The Searchers. All dressed up in your spacesuit, with nowhere to go? Perhaps it's time to put your self-promotional skills to work. Space.com reports that Mars One, the...
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Rovers Now Just Drawing Penises All Over Mars
The Mars Rovers have been roaming around the red planet collecting important scientific data that could help NASA determine whether or not there are ALIENS. But as any high school student will tell...
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Bad News: Trip to Mars Comes With a Massive Dose of Radiation
Nope. Take off that space helmet and pull up a chair, because we've got some bad news. The Mars Curiosity rover measured radiation levels on its way to the Red Planet, and yesterday, NASA released the...
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Barbie’s Going to Mars But Don’t Worry, Her Helmet Is Still Pink
More like the PINK PLANET, amirite? (Photo: Mattel) In honor of the one-year anniversary of the Mars Curiosity mission, Mattel is introducing a special-edition "Mars Explorer" Barbie, designed in...
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Friendless Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year on Mars by Singing ‘Happy...
Artist's rendering. The Mars Curiosity Rover just celebrated a year on the red planet. According to the Washington Post, the friendless little machine marked the occasion by singing itself "Happy...
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If You Want to Live on Mars, Prepare to Eat a Lot of Spam and Nutella
Wait, where's the salad bar? (Photo: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) And you thought you'd gotten bad about venturing out on the weekends. The AP reports that six researchers have just...
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New Research Claims We All Actually Came to Earth on a Meteorite from Mars
This is where I spent my childhood, you guys. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) If a geochemist's much-talked-about new research is true, human life began not on Earth, but on Mars—meaning that technically,...
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Scientists Dismayed to Find Distinct Lack of Farts on Mars
Fresher than a baby's bottom, apparently. (Photo: Nasa.gov) Time for a bummer of intergalactic proportions: there probably isn't life on Mars, not even in the form of microbes--because there's no fart...
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#NoFilter: NASA Rover Takes Space Selfie To Celebrate One Year on Mars
Can a Rover do duckface? (Screengrab: YouTube) NASA's Curiosity Rover is celebrating an important achievement today: the completion of its first full year on Mars — the equivalent 687 Earth days. To...
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Buzz Aldrin Thinks We Will Colonize Mars in the Next 25 Years
Buzz Aldrin. (Getty) It's been 45 years since humans first landed on the moon, and the world's now wondering when people — not just adorable selfie-loving rovers — are going to head over to Mars. Buzz...
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NASA May Use 6-Months-Long Deep Sleep to Send Astronauts to Mars
Next stop: Mars. (SpaceWorks) NASA has long been researching the viability of sending humans to Mars. Besides exploring the terrain with that sassy Mars Rover, the agency has also experimented with...
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