Today at 2pm EST, NASA will make a huge announcement during a news conference. Apparently scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce the discovery of an all new bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know. This bacteria has been discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake in California next to Yosemite Park. Read more here

Do you remember James Webb? It’s the telescope that will replace Hubble. And it has astronomical cost overruns. In fact, the amount we’re talking about is around $1.5 billion -- but there is a good news, as NASA has assured that the budget won't be cut and that the overruns on the James Webb Space Telescope won't mean that a "Hurricane Katrina" is going to blow a hole in our astrophysics. Want to know more? Click here.