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NASA is set to launch the first test flight of its deep space Orion capsule this week, and you can watch activities leading up to the Thursday (Dec. 4) launch live online.

Several nights ago the chill of interstellar space refrigerated the countryside as temperatures fell well below zero. That didn’t discourage the likes of Orion and his seasonal friends Gemini, Perseus and Auriga. They ...

DNA can survive a flight through space and re-entry into Earth's atmosphere -- and still pass on genetic information. A team of scientists from the University of Zurich obtained these astonishing results during an experi...

See photos from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission to collect samples of the asteroid 1999 JU3 by 2020. The mission launches in 2014 for a 2018 rendezvous with the asteroid.

60 years ago today, at 2:46 p.m. local time, a meteor burned over Sylacauga, Alabama. Normally, this wouldn't be news, except that this fragment of interplanetary debris was pretty big, probably massing dozens of kilogra...

After a two-year debate sparked by the emergence of low-cost competition, European space nations on Tuesday are likely to back plans to build a new rocket, the Ariane 6, say sources.

Japan on Sunday delayed the launch of a space probe designed to mine an asteroid for a second time due to bad weather.

Video Caption: Animation details NASA's Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission launching on Dec. 4. 2014. Credit: NASA It's not Science Fiction! It's Not Star Trek! No. It's a really, really big NASA Mission! It...

Seriously, stop whatever you're doing and WATCH THIS VIDEO. And yes, you very much want to make it full screen: Holy. WOW. This is one of the most wondrous and moving paeans to space exploration I have ever seen. The wor...