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• NASA: Space station becomes dark matter hunter

  With a new $2 billion device successfully installed Thursday, the International Space Station has become a dark matter hunter.

• AusCERT 2011: NASA not immune to cyber attack

  A NASA employee has given an insight into its security system, with the agent saying that NASA is often affected by hackers.

• NASA, Stanford websites hit by search engine scammers

  Scammers looking to flog cheap software have hacked Web pages on high-profile websites, including those belonging to NASA and Stanford University.

• NASA says Endeavour won't launch before May 8

  After calling off last Friday's planned final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, NASA now says the earliest it might lift off is May 8.

• NASA's Endeavour set for final space flight

  Barring bad weather, NASA's space shuttle Endeavour is prepped and ready to blast off on its final journey into space this afternoon.

• HP starts work on $2.5B NASA contract

  The weak first quarter growth in gross domestic product announced by the government Wednesday was blamed, in part, by a decline in public sector spending. But some tech vendors, including Hewlett-Packard, selling to the federal government may not be hurt by this.

• Programmer-turned-astronaut to lift off on NASA's Endeavour

  Mission Specialist Gregory Chamitoff settles in aboard the space shuttle Endeavour during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Photo courtesy of NASA) One of the six men lifting off onboard NASA's space shuttle Endeavour Friday is a computer programmer who built software for spacecraft before becoming an astronaut.

• SETI hunt for alien life put on hold

  The US federal and state budget squeeze is affecting life here on Earth - and beyond.

• Marking milestones in space flight, space shuttle program

  This is a big day for NASA and space buffs around the world, who are clebrating two major anniversaries.

• Ex-NASA cloud builder's startup boosts OpenStack software

  The former chief architect of NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has founded a new company that will use the OpenStack project to bring cloud capabilities to enterprise customers.

• NASA's Messenger grabs historic image of Mercury

  This photo taken by the Messenger spacecraft from Mercury's orbit shows an area near the planet's south pole. (Image: NASA) NASA spacecraft Messenger delivered its first photograph of Mercury -- the first image of the planet taken from its own orbit.

• Critical NASA network was open to internet attack

  Six NASA servers exposed to the Internet had critical vulnerabilities that could have endangered Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Hubble Telescope missions -- flaws that would have been found by a security oversight program the agency agreed to last year but hasn't yet implemented, according to a report by the agency's inspector general.

• NASA scraps plan for 3D camera on Mars Rover

  NASA has given up on the hope to build a 3D camera for the next robotic rover that the space agency will send to Mars.

• Twitter's 5th Birthday: 5 Milestones

  At 4:50 p.m. on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey wrote "just setting up my twttr."

• NASA: Humanoid robot launching into future

  With 38 computer processors and working arms and hands, the humanoid robot onboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery is expected to be the centerpiece of a dramatic step forward in the evolution of humans and robots working together in space.