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NASA is asking a new community to help them stop killer asteroids from impacting Earth. Agency officials will attend the World Maker Faire in New York City this weekend to enlist the help of innovators to help protect Ea...

Scandinavian-based Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF) believes a great alternative to Mars' rovers maybe slithering robotics. They are working with Norwegian company Robotnor on many uses for the ...

A new commercial spacecraft built to haul cargo to the International Space Station will launch into space from Virginia's Eastern Shore Wednesday, and it just might be visible from a wide swath of the U.S. East Coast. He...

The internet loves animals, and loves animals in surprising places even more. So when a photo emerged showing a frog flying alongside NASA’s Minotaur V rocket as it lifted off from it’s... --

The sleek and sexy-looking GOCE spacecraft have been mapping Earth's gravity for over four years, but soon its xenon fuel will run out and the satellite will end up re-entering our atmosphere. But no one can say for sure...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard, is seen on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) Pad-0A at the NASA Wallops Flight Facili...

The first American space traveler to follow his astronaut father into orbit is selling some of his memorabilia, including a model based on a rocket designed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russia's "father of space travel."

Another week, another Carnival of Space! This week’s CoS is hosted by our pay Ray Sanders at his “Dear Astronomer” blog.

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, nestled on a quaint stretch of Virginia's rural coastline, has an active autumn launch schedule this year, one sign a nearly $150 million investment by state and federal governments is sta...

Pay attention! This Mars orbiter, headed for launch in November, is a terrific science mission, as Mat Kaplan learned in a recent workshop, and in this week's Planetary Radio.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: An innovative, dual solar/space imaging project, jointly developed by researchers at two NASA field centers, is targeted for launch in mid- September.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Product assurance engineer Kamili Jackson believes that giving back is paying back.

NASA is reaching out to a new community for ideas on how to find and track potentially hazardous asteroids, and protect the planet from their impacts. The World Maker Faire is being held Sept. 21-22 at the New York Hall ...

NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will kick off a quest for an innovative and affordable space-based system to extend the Landsat satellite data record for decades to come with a public forum and call for ideas ...

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, who returned to Earth Sept. 10 after more than five months on the International Space Station, will be available for media interviews from 2-3 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 19.

The celestial object known as 3552 Don Quixote is classified as an asteroid, but researchers have long believed it to be a "dead" comet stripped of its ices. But Don Quixote is actually a live, sopping wet comet, a new s...

The energy of comets smashing into Earth billions of years ago could have generated life out of the building blocks of life that those extraterrestrial objects brought, according to new experiments published in a peer-re...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA invites the general public to participate in a question and answer session with women working on the agency's next generation of a space-based telescope as part of a Reddit.com ev...

This space wallpaper shows the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft after it landed with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy aboard, near the town of Zhezkaz...

By using the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (and adjusting brightness), this unique view of the moon has been created.

ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration: Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: astronauts on ESA's cave training course descend for their first underground adventure

An inflight photograph of the Douglas D-558-1 #3 Skystreak, a research aircraft used by NACA.