Topic: Mike Wall - CSMonitor.com

Google billionaires announce scheme to mine asteroids (+video)

A new company backed by some of the world's most prominent billionaires, including three Google executives, plans to mine near-Earth asteroids for precious metals.

NASA's Kepler observatory to continue hunt for strange new worlds (+video)

Mercury: Unusual insides and active history

NASA to launch one rocket per minute tonight (for five minutes)

Why NASA will fire five rockets in five minutes

Jupiter and Venus to dance together this week

John Glenn's first spaceflight was fraught with risks and unknowns

NASA to exchange 'flagship' missions for small-ball projects (+video)

Obama's NASA budget favors a space telescope over Mars exploration

Mars missions cancelled? NASA budget could prompt deep cuts.

School-bus-sized asteroid to buzz Earth Friday, nearer than moon

Meteorites in Morocco confirmed to be Martian in origin

Russian space probe may crash into Indian Ocean

Most stars in our galaxy have planets, study suggests

Nearly 15 tons of failed Russian Mars probe could slam into Earth Jan. 15

Why 2012 could be the year we find a habitable planet

Astronauts plan space station holiday bash (Video)

Comet Lovejoy's death-defying plunge into the sun [Video]

Comet's death-plunge into sun will be well documented

Microsoft billionaire launches new space venture

NASA Mars rover finds strong evidence of water

New earth-like planet discovered by NASA spacecraft (Video)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to 'lay the foundation' for search for life [Video]

Burning Man photo snapped from Earth's orbit

Hurricane Irene was actually bigger than hurricane Katrina