Sometime next year, NASA will launch a mission which will literally smash open some of the secrets our lunar satellite has been holding for millions of years. The LCROSS team headed by Anthony Colaprete is currently searching for the best impact sites inside various shadowed craters which may contain a good amount of frozen water. Find out more in our full article after the jump.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has trained its sights on a rather puzzling astronomical discovery. Nine young, compact galaxies spanning only 5,000 light-years across were spotted recently. The weird thing about them was that they weigh as much as 200 billion times the mass of our own Sun. Find out more about this in our full article after the jump.

There's a possibility that the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS detector might be able to reveal extra dimensions. But for now the only thing it is able to unveil is the fact that it's facing a lawsuit right now. Fermilab and CERN's project has been put to a halt due to worries and fears by critics. Read more on this in the full article.

In case you are not aware, the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii had its first eruptive explosion on March 19 since 1924. The explosion took place in the middle of a national park, causing problems never imagined before by the U.S. government. The rest of the details are available after the jump!

It looks like the best chances for the Solar System to produce life other than on the planet Earth isn't on a planet at all, but a moon. What makes it more interesting is that it's not just on any moon, but on Charon, the moon of our very own ex-planet, Pluto.

Scientists down at Hawaii's Gemini Telescope have discovered patches of ice crystals mixed with ammonia hydrates on the surface of Charon. Researchers, ruling out many theories on how the ice got there, concluded that the ice came from inside Charon itself, seeping out of cracks from the surface.

The process is known as cryo-volcanism, where liquid from below erupts to the surface and instantly freezes. Scientists believe that the cryo-volcanism in Charon is the result of a nuclear material inside it, causing the phenomenon. They also believe the ammonia hydrates acts as an antifreeze agent. Jason Cook, who led the research team that studied Charon's surface, explains:

Charon's surface is almost entirely water ice. So it must have a vast amount of water under the surface, and much of that should be frozen as well. Only deep inside Charon could water be a liquid. Yet, there is fresh ice on the surface, meaning that some liquid water must somehow reach the surface. The ammonia sitting on the surface provides the clue. It's the ammonia that helps keep some material liquid. It makes it all feasible. Without ammonia the water could not get out there.

Scientists are now speculating that Charon may hold life in her underbelly, with alien fish swimming its underground waters. The nuclear reactions would make this possible inside Charon, but the surface is a different matter, as it is far too cold (around -230 degrees Celsius.) It's funny to think that Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld, and Charon was the ferryman who took the dead to the underworld.

NASA's New Horizons probe, currently on the way to Pluto, will help scientists investigate Charon further when the probe arrives in July, 2015 to take a closer look and find more evidence.

Already nicknamed "Octosquid," this ruby-red creature has the body of a squid but with the eight tentacles of an octopus.

The scientists at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) caught this foot long enigma of the deep quite accidentally last week from one of their 3,000 foot deep pipelines that sucks up deep-sea water for their lab. It got caught in one of their filter tanks and stayed alive for three days after capture.

Along with the octosquid, three black rattail fish and four jellyfish were captured. All the others were dead except for the smallest rattail fish. It wasn't alive for long though since the octosquid ate it up. Jan War, operations manager of NELHA, said that the fish that come up the pipeline usually die when they get sucked up because of the rapid change in pressure. The octosquid wasn't affected though because invertebrates (creatures without a spine) aren't affected by pressure change.

The folks down at Hawaii are planning on ways to check the filters for their pipelines more often - a process which is usually done years apart - because they keep coming up with rather odd finds. They still have a starfish they don't know the species of and to this day is just labeled "animal." Pipelines that go down at different depths actually come up with different kinds of species. Who knows what else is down there? The depths are by large the biggest container of new and unknown life. Needless to say, the scientists involved are enthusiastic with the prospects.

Want to win a pimped-out PS3 that sports your own design? VH1 is currently holding a contest where the grand prize is exactly that.

VH1's "Pimp Ur Own PlayStation 3" contest is open to all U.S. residents except for those living in Hawaii and Alaska. You also have to be at least 18 to join the contest. If you meet those requirements, all you have to do is talk about your favorite old school original PlayStation story in 150 words or less here.

The winner will get a brand-new PS3 with their design laser-etched onto it by Sony and Green Demon Laser along with a copy of fl0w and Calling All Cars. The contest ends at midnight on May 21, and the big winner will be announced a couple of days later. For the contest rules, click here.

It's confirmed: Uwe Boll's making another movie adaptation of a popular videogame, and this time it's Far Cry.  The shooting of the movie - which will take place in Vancouver, Canada, instead of Hawaii as previously stated- will begin immediately next month, as Gamerflicks reports.

A little backgrounder on Far Cry: Ubisoft's 2004 first-person shooter puts the player in the shoes of Jack Carver, an ex-Special Forces soldier who encounters mutant creatures known as Trigen after a mercenary job goes awry. Things go sharply downhill after that, with Carver bent on rescuing his employer - a female journalist by the name of Valerie Constantine - and every step bringing him closer to what the Trigens really are, and who created the monstrosities in the first place.

That's how it goes in the game. How it actually goes in the movie is anyone's guess - and when Uwe's involved, all bets are off, if one remembers his spin on Postal. With much of the cast and staff from his previous movies reprising their roles, one thing is clear, at least: we're in for one very interesting game-to-movie adaptation.

Oh, and in case you're wondering just who'll be portraying Jack, it's a rumored toss-up between Michael Pare ("Bloodrayne II") or Jason Statham ("In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Movie").

Countries in the South Pacific are bracing themselves for what could be tail-whips of an underwater earthquake and tsunami that happened a few hours ago killing at least 13 people.

The earthquake hit magnitude 8 on the Richter scale and the epicenter was detected 220 miles off the coast of the Solomons. The death toll registered has not included those missing as the 30-foot wave battered villages along the beach.

Even in the deluge, authorities said that it was fortunate that everything happened in the morning, prompting people to take notice and allowing civil defense measures to be conducted.

Australia is now on full alert and has closed beaches and stopped harbor activities in Sydney. Similar precautionary alerts have also been raised in Hawaii and Japan to safeguard live sand avoid incidents that happened in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Tsunamis are often triggered by offshore earthquakes. The movement in the ocean floor causes water to be drawn back farther than it usually is along the coast. That creates the artificial and extreme "low tide." The educated know it's time to run when they see a phenomenon like that.

A report by the Associated Press informs that Daniel Dzurisin, a geologist at the US Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano believes that Mount St. Helens may be following the example of Kilauea in Hawaii in that it has become an "open system." Basically this means that magma is being replaced from a reservoir beneath the volcano as fast as it emerges as lava at the surface.

The Geologist notes that this was observed from the domebuilding eruption that started last 2004 and that continues at a relatively unchanged pace.

Analysis of digital elevation models made from high-resolution aerial photographs reveal that, the flow has grown from roughly eight cubic yards, per second, to slightly more than one cubic yard per second. Since last April it has been fairly constant at 0.6 cubic yards per second. They note that this is about equivalent to nine truckloads of lava every two minutes

Dzurisin notes that the longer the eruption continues, the more likely that a direct pathway has developed for molten rock to emerge from the beneath the earth's crust to the planet's surface. Dzurisin does note however, that it will take them another year the reach a more definite conclusion.

The experts say that they know that St. Helens is capable of eruptions that could last for decades. Moreover, one has to note that the ongoing eruption at Kilauea started in 1983. All those "lava flows in our backyard" stories come from Hawaii and Kilauea. Will we be hearing about lava flows in Vancouver in the near future? Time will tell.