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Today: Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) Hardware Replacement: FE-3 Hopkins used the Maintenance Work Area (MWA) for restraining the Multi-user Droplet Combustion Apparatus (MDCA) Chamber Insert Assembly (CIA) while he in...

Happy New Year! And don’t feel bad about taking today off. After all, you’ve traveled far.  And I’m not talking about the trip home from the party. According to NASA, just by... --

One last look at earth from space in 2013. GOES image captured 12.31.13 at 23:45 UTC. Happy New Year! pic.twitter.com/QEz9VIWCmJ...

When people think about evolution, the most obvious name that comes to mind is Charles Darwin. Alfred Russell Wallace is rarely given the credit he deserves for his work on the subject, which is... --

Kepler-22b is an alien planet that's a bit larger than Earth, but it's in the habitable region of its star.

If you live in the southern hemisphere, you now can safely view the aftermath of a nuclear explosion from the comfort of your own backyard.

There’s an old Chinese proverb that says, "May you live in interesting times,” and 2013 certainly fit the bill in the world of spaceflight and space science. The past year saw spacecraft depart for Mars, China land a...

NEOWISE has reawakened to discover many more asteroids and comets. The mission leader thanks the amateur astronomers who follow up on these discoveries.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has landed in LEGO's toy catalog and is now available for order.

The people of Earth rang in 2014 with raucous celebrations that reached all the way to space, where astronauts on the International Space Station helped usher in the New Year. See the Happy New Year video from astronauts...

The new year starts out with a bang, offering the chance to spy an exceptionally thin crescent moon shortly after sunset. Here’s how to find it. (...)Read the rest of See the Youngest Moon of Your Life Tonight (796 wor...

Now more than halfway through its journey from protoplanet Vesta to dwarf planet Ceres, Dawn is continuing to use its advanced ion propulsion system to reshape its orbit around the sun. Now that the ship is closer to the...

In “ Astronomers Search for Moons Circling Distant Exoplanets ” author Lee Billings explores the hunt for moons orbiting distant planets--exomoons. The project uses data from the... --

The Planetary Lake Lander is testing autonomous exploration technologies for a future mission to Saturn's most intriguing moon --

Early Mars rovers had little more intelligence than a fancy remote-controlled car. NASA’s Curiosity rover is somewhat more evolved: It can navigate around simple obstacles and spot a dust devil... --

[I decided a while ago to make this post an annual BA tradition on January 1, which is a more polite way of saying it's a repost and I'm sometimes a tad on the lazy side. I've punched it up here and there over the previo...

Judith Lumley AM, Professor Emeritus, in 2008 It began, as life changes often do, when I bought a book. It was in Sydney and I wrote the year in it: 1982. [More] --

Using the new capabilities of the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), scientists have discovered previously-unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars. The discovery gives strong support for ...

Kepler-62e is an alien planet that is believed to be in the habitable zone of its red dwarf parent star.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic celebrated a year of new rocket technologies, space ships, certifications, and construction of the first ever spaceport for tourists.

For every The Social Network, however, there is a Hackers; likewise, rare accomplishments such as 2001: A Space Odyssey tend to be followed by a flurry of ill-advised imitators.

This space wallpaper is an illustration of the hypothetical appearance of the exoplanet GJ 1214b, which is known as a "super-Earth" type planet because it is slightly more than six Earth masses.