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Even scientists have soul! Take a listen to 'Jewel in the Night,' by Colonel Chris Hadfield.

NASA officials recovered a tiny piece of a moon rock in a raid targeting a 74-year-old woman who tried to sell it at a California Denny’s restaurant. The raid was the result of a five month investigation into the missing lunar material that netted a “speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice.”

Since 2007, astronomers at the SETI Institute in Northern California have been scanning the great beyond for signs of alien life. However, due to a decrease in the funding the institute receives from NASA and other government sources, the institute will have to shut down the powerful bank of 42 radio dishes that it uses to target unexplored planets.

Hard to believe that it's been 25 years today.   I was a grade-school kid who had moved to Tampa, Florida when this happened, and still remember it like it was yesterday.