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Koichi Wakata @Astro_Wakata - This is how the robotic workstation for controlling Canadarm2 looks like supporting the EVA 24 on Dec 21. pic.twitter.com/FMHu1aGdZP...

GOES composite satellite imagery of America this morning, 22 December 2013....

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A new viral time-lapse video depicts the Milky Way over Mauna Kea, Hawaii, in amazing detail, complete with telescopes and lasers. Astronomy grad student Sean Goebel created the video from photographs shot in April and t...

Researchers have weighed a planet orbiting a distant star by measuring the starlight passing through its atmosphere. The technique could accelerate the hunt for Earth-like worlds. [More] --

I am working on a ridiculously huge and awesome post for tomorrow, and my brain is essentially cottage cheese at this point, so please enjoy this picture of my dog Canis Minor* lying on the couch looking forlornly at you...

Here is the list of activities performed last year. Each "week" begins the following Wednesday from the first date posted each quarter. UCLA Undergraduate Astronomical Society/SEDS club meetings are held Wednesday nights...

Here is a preliminary list of activities performed last year. (TBA events will be added after December since the person in charge of those records is currently on vacation) Each "week" begins the following Wednesday from...

Astronauts removed an old space station pump Saturday, sailing through the first of a series of urgent repair spacewalks to revive a crippled cooling line.

NASA pushed the second of three planned holiday spacewalks by 24 hours after noticing an issue with the spacesuit of Rick Mastracchio, who ventured outside the orbiting lab with fellow NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins Saturda...

A Japanese robotics team dominated the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials, an ambitious two-day competition that saw robots driving cars, climbing ladders and wielding power tools.

(University of Edinburgh) Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a new scientific study shows.

The ghosts of spacewalks past did not haunt the quick-working pair of astronauts who began replacing a faulty ammonia pump on the International Space Station today (Dec. 21). Unlike a difficult spacewalk to do a similar ...

If you’re like me, you hang off every news release and new photo from our tenacious Mars rover Curiosity. The awesome one-ton, six-wheeled robot is, after all, exploring a very alien landscape. But if there’s one thi...