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From a cosmic garden to fishing for space junk, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for April 12, 2015.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige said Saturday that a nonprofit company planning to build one of the world's largest telescopes atop a mountain many Native Hawaiians consider sacred will maintain a moratorium on construction for an...

The next space station grocery run will carry caffeine to a whole new level: Aboard the SpaceX supply ship is an authentic espresso machine straight from Italy.

The next year is a critical time for this country's military space strategy. New and powerful high-throughput satellite (HTS) systems will soon be coming on line, delivering far more performance than today's satellites. ...

About 90 employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, ran a marathon-length relay around the facility's grounds on Thursday (April 9) to celebrate the Opportunity rover's Mars marathon.

In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar "baby boom," churning out stars at a prodigious rate, about 30 times faster tha...

A total lunar eclipse wowed skywatchers and two private spaceflight companies tackled big challenges. These, and more, are Space.com's picks for the best space stories for the week of April 12.

The MESSENGER Mercury probe is in the news again, this time for two somewhat related items. The spacecraft has been orbiting the closest planet to the Sun since March 2011, just over four years ago, and has been returnin...

This image combines two Sentinel-1A radar scans from 3 and 15 January 2015 to show ice velocities on outlet glaciers of Greenland's west coast....