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Space Disco
http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco
Discovery Channel's space producer, Dave Mosher, gives you the latest on the party of astronomical proportions that is the universe!
Recent Posts
The Space Disco Has Closed! But the Party Isn\'t Over, It\'s Been Relocated to a Bigger Dancefloor
Just in case you didn't know (perhaps you live in a cave with no wi-fi coverage), Discovery News has been re-branded, re-designed and re-launched. It's been re-everythinged! The only thing you will see that is familiar is the awesome reported ne...
What Will John Cusack be Doing on Dec. 21, 2012? Skiing.
Wow, today has been an eventful day! This afternoon I had a great interview with Dr. Mike Brown (a.k.a. the planet hunter who killed Pluto by discovering Eris) all about hate-mail, Pluto, Planet X and Nibiru. The full interview transcript will be...
Kepler\'s Exoplanet Hunt On Hold Until 2011
Just when the extra-solar planet hunt seemed to be going so well, NASA has announced that the orbital Earth-like exoplanet hunter will not be able to detect a world like our own until 2011 at the earliest. The Kepler space telescope was launched ...
5 Frightening (But True) Space Stories
Guest blog post by HowStuffWorks.com science writer and Discovery Space contributor Robert Lamb. There's nothing like a good horror story in space*. I grew up watching Sigourney Weaver outsmart xenomorphs in her underwear and subsequently spent a...
It\'s Alive! The LHC is Injected with its First Particle Beam
Like the reanimation of a super-cool corpse, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was injected with beams of particles over the weekend and the multi-billion euro project came to life. These are the first protons and lead ions the collider has seen sin...
Amelia Earhart\'s Scarf to be Flown to the Space Station
This weekend, the story of legendary explorer Amelia Earhart will be told in an epic movie called "Amelia". Earhart will be played by Hilary Swank (who bares more than just a fleeting resemblance to the aviation pioneer, great casting) and the fil...

