This recent image from the surface of Mercury has cause NASA to wonder,

Anyone Else Think This Looks Like the Cookie Monster? Ok, so maybe it's just me. But the superposition of younger craters on older craters (in this case two smaller craters upon the rim of an older crater) can result in landforms that appear to resemble more familiar shapes to human eyes.

That, or maybe it's a sign from the Yip Yip Martians.

From NASA:

ASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence -- images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels -- is the first of its kind.

Photographer Ben Cooper's flight deck galleries of space shuttles Endeavour, Atlantis and Discovery gives the cliche "all the Bells and Whistles" a whole new meaning.

Dr. Harold White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate, knows that the future of space travel relies on faster speed, and that means Warp Speed.

By experimenting with physics-defying "warp bubbles," White and his team are already on the road to creating a Warp Drive for possibly our lifetime or the next generation.

Neil Armstrong was laid to rest at sea today. The pics are amazing, as is this video tribute by NASA.

RIP, Neil.

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What does it take to save the earth from possible asteroid-based destruction? A super-team of experts, under the water. Oh yes.

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The lonely Curiosity rover is poised to get a companion on Mars in September 2016 -- so long as NASA's next mission, InSight, goes as planned.

Where Curiosity has been tasked with exploring the surface of Mars, a second rover is needed to probe its innards.

"We're really clueless about the interior," said NASA director of Planetary Science Jim Green.

And by 2016, us earthlings will be more than ready for a little Red Planet romance.

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