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ESA Selects Next Generation Space Missions
3 Ton Meteorite Stolen
Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible?
Galactic Traffic Patterns
Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision
Can Space Nerds Get Along?
India Launches 10 Satellites At Once
Lunar Lander Challenge Ends in Fire, Disappoinment
Make Your Own Sputnik
Space Debris Narrowly Misses Airliner
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind
The Hubble Lives On
The Universe Damaged By Observation?
"All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun
'Hundreds of Worlds' in Milky Way
A Telescope as Big as the Earth
Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System
Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope
Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns
China Launches First Moon Orbiter
Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved
Comet McNaught Visible in Broad Daylight
Do You Need a Permit to Land on the Moon?
First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA
How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K
Kimchi in Space
Milky Way Is Twice the Size We Thought
Mysterious Peruvian Meteor Disease Solved
NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet
NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon
Opportunity Takes a Dip Into Victoria Crater
Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter
Rare Lone Neutron Star Found Nearby
Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy
Saturn's Moons Harboring Water?
Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid
Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope
Soyuz Ballistic Re-entry 300 Miles Off Course
Space Station Solar Equipment Showing Damage
Stephen Hawking Thinks Aliens Likely
UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts
US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris
Ulysses Spacecraft on its Last Legs
Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock
What You Don't Know About Living in Space
Your Chance to be an Astronaut
Earth's Moon is a Rarity
Extraterrestrials Probably Haven't Found Us - Yet
How a Pulsar Gets Its Spin
NASA's Rollercoaster For Moon Rocket Escape
Russia Plans Its Own Moon Base
Defunct Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit
Solar System Look-Alike Found
200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way
Astronauts Open ISS Station Room
Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth
Building the Interplanetary Internet
Can String Theory Accommodate Inflation?
Cassini Geyser-Tasting a Bust
Cosmic Rays and Global Warming
Crater From 1908 Tunguska Blast Found
Entry-Level Astronomy?
First Look At New Mexico's Space Terminal
French Threat To ID Secret US Satellites
Hubble Telescope's Main Camera Shuts Down
Huge Balloon Lofts New Telescope
India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth
Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again
Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive"
Inventor to Launch Pop Bottle Rocket into Space
LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves
MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit
Milky Way's Black Hole a Gamma Source?
Origin of Cosmic Rays Confirmed
Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power
Star Swallows Companion, Burps Out Planet-Forming Cloud
The Astronomical Event Search Engine
The Milky Way's Black Hole Is Not So Quiescent
The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old
Theory Posits Early Stars Powered By Dark Matter
USA 193 Shootdown Set For Feb 21, 03:30 UTC
Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
Why ISS Computers Failed
Will the Earth's Tail Fry Moon Visitors?
World's Largest Telescope Up and Running
Endeavour Crew to Assemble Giant Robot, in Space
Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection
2008, The Year of the Spaceship
Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress
Ashes of Doohan Sent Into Space
Astronauts Hook Up Harmony in Lengthy Spacewalk
Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality
Carnegie Mellon To Compete In Google Lunar X-Prize
China's First Lunar Satellite Sends Back Pictures
Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell
Deep Impact Probe to Look for Earth-sized Planets
Facebook Users Complain of New Ad-Based Tracking
Gates to join Simonyi in Space?
Golf-Ball Sized Hail Damages Shuttle
Google's $30,000,000 Lunar X PRIZE
IPv6 Tested in Space
Iran Launches Payload into Space
Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru
Molecular Basis for Life Found on Extrasolar Planet
New Telescope Array Goes Live For SETI
Northrop Grumman to own Scaled Composites
Outer Space has a Smell
Probe Captures Avalanche on Mars
SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble
Saturn's Moons Built From Ring Material
Space Planes to Meet 'Big Demand' For Tourism
SpaceShipTwo Design and Pics Released
SpaceX's Falcon Launches... Sort Of
The Fermi Paradox is Back
The New Moon Race
The Physics of Zero-G Whipped Cream
The Shadow Space Race
The Story of Baikonur, Russia's Space City
US Claims Satellite Shoot-Down Success
US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS
Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA
Youngest Planet Discovered
Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space
A Symmetrical Cosmic Red Square
Antique Fridge Could Keep Venus Rover Cool
Antique Voyager Technology
Asteroid Mission Competition Announces Winner
BLAST! Telescope Documentary Premieres Tuesday
Boeing Dreamliner Safety Concerns Are Specious
Building an IT Infrastructure Around Mars
Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold
Computer Forensics to Help Solve Pioneer Mystery
Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter
Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons
European Launch Site For Virgin Galactic
Exploding Robots May Scout Hazardous Asteroids
Final Repair Mission To Extend Hubble's Life
First 10 Teams in $30M Google Lunar X Prize Announced
Hubble Camera Lost "For Good"
Japan Launches "Super-Speed" Internet Satellite
Japan Scrapping Moon Mission
Largest-Known Planet Befuddles Scientists
Making War On Light Pollution
Mars Camera's Worsening Eye Problems
More Spacecraft Velocity Anomalies
NASA Awards Space Cargo Grant
NASA Goes Bargain Basement With New Satellite
NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration
NASA To Send Luke's Lightsaber Into Space
NASA Wants its MMO Created for Free
NASA's Instrument For Detecting Life On Mars
Name the New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
New Horizons Probe's Images of Jupiter
New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet
New Radar Maps of Moon
New Results From Venus Express
Nukes Against Earth-Impacting Asteroids
Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade
Pillars of Creation Destroyed
Private Efforts Fill Gaps In Earth's Asteroid Defenses
Russia Announces End to Space Tourism in 2010
Scientists Look at Martian Salt for Ancient Life
Self-Sufficient Lunar Habitat Designed
Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
Space Elevators Face Wobble Problem
Speculation On the Doomed Satellite
The Dark Side of Iapetus
US Urged To Keep Space Shuttles Flying Past 2010
Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful
Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom
Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old
Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars
Astronomer Offers Theory Into 400-Year-Old Lunar Mystery
Cassini 'Tastes' Organic Material at Enceladus
Could Black Holes Be Portals to Other Universes?
Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe?
From the Moon to Earth in HD
Gouge Found on Shuttle Endeavour's Underside
Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon
Long-lived Mars Rovers to Keep on Roving
Mars Global Surveyor Died from Single Bad Command
Mass of Dwarf Planet Eris 27% Greater than Pluto
Messenger Probe Sends Back Mercury Photos
Minor Leak Being Investigated Aboard the ISS
Missing Potential Earth-Busting Asteroid Found
NASA Considers Plans for Permanent Moon Base
NASA Spaceship Scouts Out Prime Mars Landing Spots
NASA Vets & Administration Clash Over Moon Plans
New Cave Entrances Seen on Mars
Potential Landing Sites for EU Mars Rover Selected
Preventing Sick Spaceships
Russia to Build New Spacecraft by 2020
Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Black Hole
Six Minutes of Terror - Landing Humans on Mars
Space Money Invented For Space Tourists
Spacecraft to Fly Through Geyser Plumes On Saturn Moon
The Next Leap In Space Exploration
Time Dimension To Become Space-like
Top Ten Discoveries of the Mars Rovers