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News of the latest adventures into space, and plans of upcoming explorations across the stars.
NASA’s SLS booster fired-up successfully, completes testing
The most powerful rocket in the world has completed its testing before it heads out to space with NASA's Orion…
NASA robot will refuel spacecraft on missions
As we know, spaceships aren't exactly like cars — when you run out of gas, you can't just frequent the nearest…
NASA just set its Cygnus cargo ship on fire in space
After spending 80 days attached to the International Space Station and delivering almost 7,500 pounds of cargo to…
NASA tried to inflate an expandable habitat at the ISS, failed, will try again
With so much talk of one day living on other planets, there's a lot of thought put into how to make that feat…
Video of the Day: NASA spacecraft gets inside a magnetic reconnection event
Imagine sending sensors inside of a hurricane to capture all of the data from the middle of the storm? That's what…
These 4 Lasers Are Creating Artificial Stars Above The Chilean Skies
The European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile is celebrating the launch of its four powerful…
Today’s Tech Image: NASA’s advanced electric propulsion system
Mind-controlled prostheses has become a popular area of research among engineers, but what about mind-controlled…
Apollo 15 lunar lens auctioning for $600,000
When Commander Dave Scott took off on the Apollo 15 mission, the first of the Apollo "J" missions capable of a…
What a rocket launch looks like from the ISS
We can probably find many pictures of rocket launches that were captured from the ground, but yesterday astronaut…
NASA is building a new planet-hunting instrument
NASA is on a mission to find out what's going on beyond our solar system. The agency has selected a team to build a…