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The International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Tuesday that they will be expanding their efforts in Syria with the help of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees. Meanwhile, the US drags its heels and the UN's efforts have amounted to nothing to stem the violence.

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- a self-proclaimed messiah from South Korea who founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, or Unification Church, businessman, convicted U.S. tax evader and friend of North Korea -- died at the age of 92 on Monday.

Pictures of the blue moon Friday have begun to go viral on Twitter as tweeters from all over post their own photographs. Most people know that the term "blue moon" doesn't mean that the moon is actually blue. However, some denizens of the Twitterverse have chosen to alter their images of Earth's only moon.

The Slooh Space Camera is offering a free live stream of the month's second blue moon. You can check out the second full moon in the month of August, courtesy of Slooh, below.

Friday, Aug. 31 will be the last chance that people get to see the much talked about blue moon, until the year 2015.

Michael Collins, sometimes called the "forgotten astronaut," flew with Buzz Aldrin and the late Neil Armstrong in Apollo 11, but never set foot on the moon.

When August 27th rolls around each year, many are led to believe it is "Mars Hoax Day," a time of year when the red planet comes so close to Earth that it appears as large as the full moon in the night sky. However, the hoax is just that. A hoax.

In honor of Neil Armstrong's passing, take a look at an odd and haunting piece of alternate history: a speech written for President Nixon in the event Armstrong was stranded on the moon. Luckily, Armstrong survived the mission and lived out the rest of his days in peace on Earth. But this letter shows a shocking look at what could have happened if the first man on the moon never came back.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at 82.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has passed away at 82, according to reports.

Get out your telescopes, because the annual Perseid meteor shower peaks Saturday night, offering spectacular views of shooting stars as meteors enter Earth's atmosphere. The meteor shower will coincide with a stunning view of Jupiter, the moon, and Venus. So when is the best time to see it?

Kofi Annan's decision to resign as UN-Arab League joint special envoy to Syria has thrown the violence and lack of diplomatic solution into sharp relief.

The orbiter should assume its position around Mars by September 2014.

If the Chinese bring a flag to plant when they land on the moon in 2013, they won't be the first: American astronauts on the Apollo missions have planted six flags already. And according to recent scientific observations, five of them are still standing upright.

This August will bring a rare blue moon, as two full moons will bookend the first and last days of the month. The somewhat rare occurrence in which a month has two full moons leads the second to be dubbed a ?blue moon.?

Reports said the exploratory craft is designed to land and transmit back a survey of the moon's surface.

A Chinese warship, which ran aground in disputed waters close to the Philippine coast while on a security patrol, extricated itself Sunday and was heading home, averting fears of another maritime standoff between Beijing and Manila in the South China Sea.

Fans are also eagerly awaiting more news on the upcoming Zombie Modes for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Treyarch has recently revealed that new gameplay modes will be added, such as a competitive version. In this mode, players will compete against one another to accumulate the most zombie kills, rather than working together to clear the map cooperatively.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said what?s called for in the war on terrorism is better communication. Oh, yes, he did.

Researchers in the United States believe they have discovered a possible lake on Saturn's moon Titan composed mostly of liquid methane in its tropic region. Scientists also believe that the moon might be filled with underground wells of hydrocarbons.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the Security Council Thursday that all-out civil war is imminent in Syria while his predecessor Kofi Annan called again for more pressure on Damascus to halt the violence.