NASA stated this week that a worm - known as Gammima or Tarerf - was discovered on a computer in the International Space Station. It is a generic Trojan that steals passwords and they say that it is not the first time they have encountered this problem. A spokesperson for NASA stated that there was no missing information and it did not disrupt the mission.
The NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have collected much more clues on certain dark matter and the properties that they hold. They recently captured what is believed to be a powerful collision of galaxy clusters a good two years after the Bullet Cluster was first discovered. This new collision (which has been labeled the MACS J0025.4-1222) offer evidence on the inner workings behind the dark matter of the universe. This evidence will in turn help scientists to discover the separation between ordinary and dark matter.
NASA has decided to take corrective action in the Government Accountability Office and the protest that has been lodged against the Exploration Systems & Technology. Officials of NASA stated that they believe the issue requires the termination of the contract for the Constellation Space Suit System that was agreed upon with Oceaneering International.
The Orion is NASA’s first manned test flight and will be replacing the current U.S. space shuttles - but it will not launch until 2014. NASA was originally shooting for 2013 - but because of technical and funding problems they have had to change the date.
Elon Musk runs SpaceX - the commercial space launch - but is finding obstacles keeping him from achieving his goal. He tested the Falcon 1 for the third time only to find more glitches. The upper stage failed to separate from the lower that way that it was made to.