NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft.

Sign up here to add your name, just takes 10 seconds. If you have kids, they can print out a cool certificate of participation that recognizes they joined the effort.

Astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past found nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of our Sun. Each compact galaxy is only 5000 light years across which is a fraction of our own grown up Milky Way but contains roughly the same number of stars.

A planet in a compact galaxy would see 200 times more stars in the sky than you do from Earth. Get the full story from HubbleSite.org.

Akhenaten wasn’t the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead.

So concludes a Yale University physician who analyzed images of Akhenaten for an annual conference Friday at the University of Maryland School of Medicine on the deaths of historic figures.

Many of Egypt’s most famous monuments, such as the Sphinx and Cheops, contain hundreds of thousands of marine fossils, most of which are fully intact and preserved in the walls of the structures, according to a new study.

X-ray diffraction and radioactivity measurements revealed that the Egyptian monuments are filled with the fossils.

U.S. Congress bans genetic discrimination

Fully automated anesthesia

A new anti-evolution push

Surgery for backward, upside-down feet

Exoskeleton industry gears up

Living artificial kidneys

Plastic blood cells

Fetal cells may protect mom against cancer

Women’s voices are sexier during fertility peaks

Magician holds his breath for 17 minutes

Flowers bring wasps to orgasm

Testosterone makes female birds better fighters but worse parents