Could Star Trek Into Darkness inspire some real-life space travelers?

By and large, reality shows are crap.

Don't you hate it when you lose something important.

It's nice to see those scalawags over at NASA finally doing something useful with their time; a team running the Kepler observatory recently put down their Shake Weights just long enough to discover the largest collection of planets yet discovered orbiting around a single star.

Earlier in October, NASA Ames Research Center director Simon Warden mentioned a new project NASA was working with DARPA on: a "hundred year starship," designed for colonizing other planets.

Japan seems pretty obsessed with the Moon these days.

Is there any problem that Japan thinks robots can't solve.

Break out the Space Cristal, because Japan is set to launch a satellite called Ikaros, which it's describing as a "space yacht," on May 18th.