Scientists have known for decades that our moon had water on the surface, but they kept trying to confirm it with samples from several trips to the moon long ago, and the Hubble telescope. As the idea of lunar bases on the moon, and even colonization of the moon, is being reintroduced scientists at NASA are treating this as a new discovery. In fact, they’ve know all this for decades, and only now are they talking in detail about it, because funding is needed for a moon base that will act as a stepping stone to get us to the real goal, Mars.

Scientists say the moon has oxygen, water, and hydrogen three which can be used to sustain life, and be used as fuel for energy.

A moon base raises several questions. Is the United States going to claim the moon its territory? Are other countries going to be invited to participate, and help pay for the base? Will the moon be used for military or peaceful purposes? So many questions.

Check out the cool new video that was just made about the moon.

NASA astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a tool bag valued at $100,000 in space last week. This caused countless would-be astronomers to boot up their telescopes to see if they could spot the pricey bag floating around space.

Someone succeeded. A short video has been posted claiming to be the aforementioned bag careening around the cosmos. Below is his video, and after that is a video of the original "Oh crap" moment when Stefanyshyn-Piper lost the bag:

Who would’ve thunk that the latest state-of-the-art invention by NASA would be a zero G coffee cup? NASA astronaut Don Pettit invented the cup on his day off aboard the International Space Station based on the shape of a rocket fuel tank that enables you to drink every last drop of a liquid without a straw in zero gravity.

Pettit arrived at the ISS from the shuttle Endeavour, to deliver a urine-to-water recycling system as well as other needed supplies.

Just think, right now he’s drinking coffee, next week he’ll be drinking his own pee!

A retired coolant tank put into space by the ISS and NASA has unexpectedly reentered the Earth’s atmosphere off the coast of Australia. Luckily, the 1400lb tank came back over water and the atmosphere broke it into tiny pieces. No pieces larger than 15lbs are believed to have made it back intact.

NASA threw the tank overboard during a shuttle mission when it was deemed too volatile to bring back to Earth. Scientists believed the tank would find a way back into our atmosphere sometime in November so this comes as no surprise.

The Hubble Telescope, which was nearly lost this month due to old age and a faulty board, has resumed regular operations today. It has since sent back some photographs, including the gorgeous one above of a pair of galaxies. A mission to replace the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling unit(SIC&DH), the system with the faulty board, is planned for April of next year. Until then, Hubble will be sending images using backup systems.

The replacement SIC&DH will undergo extensive testing starting in mid-December. Unfortunately, it is being constructed out of the same hardware as the old version that has been giving scientists such trouble.