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Troublesome boat forces Orbital to scrub rocket launch Orbital Sciences postponed its planned launch of the Cygnus cargo ship toward the International Space Station.
28 October 2014
Comet Siding Spring whizzes past Mars A comet the size of a small mountain whizzed past Mars, dazzling space enthusiasts with the once-in-a-million-years encounter.
20 October 2014
US, German astronauts finish spacewalk to maintain ISS An American and a German astronaut spent just over six hours on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station for equipment repairs and maintenance.
08 October 2014
Pictures of the Aral Sea in 2000 (left) and in August 2014 (right). ©NASA NASA image shows part of Aral Sea completely disappear for first time in centuries The American space agency has a published a photo taken in August, which shows the eastern basin of the Southern Sea completely dried up.
02 October 2014
Boeing, SpaceX to send astronauts to space station NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX to build America's next spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017.
17 September 2014
NASA to make announcement on US human spaceflights The company -- or companies -- that will build America's next space taxi to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit and back is to be revealed.
17 September 2014
NASA asteroid defense program falls short: audit The US space agency's program to detect and protect the Earth from incoming asteroids is poorly managed and far behind schedule.
16 September 2014
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover reaches 'far frontier' NASA's $2.5 billion Curiosity rover has reached the base of the Martian mountain it aims to explore and should start drilling rocks there soon.
12 September 2014
Europe launches last resupply ship to space station An Ariane 5 ES heavy rocket lifted off from South America late Tuesday bearing Europe's fifth and final robot supply ship for the International Space Station (ISS), mission control said.
30 July 2014
NASA rover breaks out-of-this-world distance record The US space agency's Opportunity rover has now clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, NASA said.
29 July 2014
Morgan Freeman. ©Reuters/Kevork Djansezian Actor Morgan Freeman 'cried' seeing 1969 Moon landing American actor Morgan Freeman said Friday he became teary-eyed when he watched US astronauts set foot on the Moon for the first time, 45 years ago.
20 July 2014
Orbital cargo ship nears arrival at space station An unmanned cargo ship that was rocketed into space this weekend by Orbital Sciences Corporation is nearing the International Space Station where it plans to dock.
16 July 2014
© NASA NASA films grandiose eruption on the Sun NASA has released a 40-second video that captured a grand coronal mass ejection from the surface of the Sun at the speed of 1.5 million miles per hour (2.4 kilometers per hour).
08 July 2014
NASA to launch satellite to track carbon pollution The US space agency is to launch on Tuesday a satellite that tracks atmospheric carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
01 July 2014
"Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator" vehicle. Photo courtesy of top.rbc.ru NASA's 'flying saucer' tests new Mars-landing technology NASA sent a saucer-like vehicle high into the sky to test technology for a future Mars landing, but its parachute tangled when deployed and the spacecraft splashed into the Pacific Ocean.
30 June 2014
'Godzilla' of Earths circles distant star Astronomers have spotted the "Godzilla" of all Earths, a huge rocky planet orbiting a star 560 light years away that is changing scientists' understanding of the origins of the universe.
03 June 2014
German Alexander Gerst, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev, his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman. ©RIA Novosti Russian, German and US astronauts dock with ISS A crew of Russian, German and US astronauts docked with the International Space Station Thursday as space cooperation between Moscow and the West continues despite their worst standoff since the Cold War.
29 May 2014
©Reuters/Stringer Major meteor shower could delight N. America May 23-24 Skywatchers in the United States and Canada could see a one-of-a-kind meteor shower late Friday night and early Saturday, astronomers say.
21 May 2014
SpaceX's Dragon capsule.Photo courtesy of space.com SpaceX supply capsule heads back to Earth The unmanned Dragon capsule from US firm SpaceX landed safely in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico's coast Sunday, hours after undocking from the International Space Station.
19 May 2014
Three astronauts land back on Earth in Soyuz capsule Three astronauts, including a Russian and an American, touched down safely on Earth Wednesday aboard a Soyuz capsule, the first such landing since Russia's relationship with the West slumped amid the Ukraine crisis.
14 May 2014
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