NASA wants you to land Curiosity rover on Mars

NASA and Microsoft have coded an Xbox Live game that allows players to land  a virtual copy of the space agency’s Mars Curiosity rover on the red planet.

Hazardous asteroid on potential collision course with Earth

A dangerously large asteroid could hit the earth in 2182 - and it needs to be deflected by 2080 at the latest, according to a global research team.

Aftershock: Chilean quake shortened Earth days

A JPL research scientist has hypothesized that the recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile shortened the length of each Earth day by approximately 1.26 microseconds, or one millionth of a second.