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The new spacecraft will aid the network of navigation satellites. [...]

Astronauts on the ground and in space spoke with three actors from 'Star Trek Into Darkness' today during a NASA-sponsored Google+ Hangout. [...]

The Apollo engines are being restored in Kansas, and the public is invited to come see. [...]

This dramatic space wallpaper reveals cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion showing what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. [...]

NASA's Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) will study asteroid Bennu. It will launch in 2016, arrive at the asteroid in 2018 and a minimum of 2 ounces of it will be returned 5 years later. [...]

By 2015 there'll be something green in space, and it won't be aliens! [...]

The mountains of the moon are visible for those that wish to see them this month. [...]

Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 16, 2013 Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center now have the capability to systematically investigate the molecular evolution of cosmic carbon. For the first time, these scientists are able to automatically interpret pr... [...]

Paris (ESA) May 16, 2013 Bright arcs are smeared around the heart of galaxy cluster Abell S1077 in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope. The arcs are stretched images of distant galaxies distorted by the cluster's enormous gravita... [...]

Kapolei HI (SPX) May 16, 2013 fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty and Hawaii Pacific Teleport has announced the formation of Hawaii Pacific Data, a joint venture to develop a state-of-the-art datacenter adjacent to the HPT facility in Kapolei,... [...]

Ottawa (AFP) May 16, 2013 A thud, dirt in the window of his capsule and the fresh smell of spring on the Kazakh steppe: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recalled Thursday his safe return from a five-month mission to space. "We hit the Earth just... [...]

Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 16, 2013 Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket will blast off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to put a French telecommunications satellite into orbit, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos sai... [...]

Washington DC (SPX) May 16, 2013 When we look into the distant cosmos, the great majority of the objects we see are galaxies: immense gatherings of stars, planets, gas, dust, and dark matter, showing up in all kind of shapes. This Hubble picture r... [...]

Cambridge, MA (SPX) May 16, 2013 Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) ... [...]

Guildford, UK (SPX) May 16, 2013 Bloodhound product sponsor DMCii has provided regular imagery to monitor test track conditions on the Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape of South Africa. During the rainy season (from October to March) the desert pan ... [...]

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 16, 2013 Google released more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space Thursday compiled into an interactive time-lapse experience. Working with data from the Landsat Program managed by the U.S. Geological Su... [...]

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 17, 2013 NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (... [...]

Bethesda MD (SPX) May 16, 2013 The Website, Mars-One.com has posted an interesting Want Ad: "Mars 2023: Inhabitants Wanted - Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. We invite you to participate by sharing our vision with your f... [...]

Inspiration Mars may use a SpaceX rocket, a pair of ULA boosters, or NASA's SLS. [...]

Astronomer Geoff Marcy tweaked W.H. Auden's poem to grieve for the troubled Kepler Space Telescope. [...]