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The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation.

NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA has exercised a million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the agency's Johnson Space Center.

NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums.

NASA will highlight the educational activities planned on the next space shuttle mission during a news briefing at 12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 9.

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On October 24th the Cosmic Collections website competition kicks off. The Science Museum is launching for the first time...

Gloucester pub The Pike and Musket was presented with a Good Lighting Award following replacement of skyward pointing lights, on...

Join Sir Patrick Moore and a host of the UK's leading Astronomers at The Royal Institution, London, to share in...

Download the 2009 October/November Sky Notes (http://britastro.org/baa/images/stories/skynotes/2009_oct_sky_notes.pdf) (pdf, 201KB).

One day astronauts on the moon may use a bicycle pump to build their home. Of course it will be a bicycle pump like no other, powe...

Imagine if you will a spacecraft floating in the blackness. It's size, when compared to the stars and planets it moves between, i...

Big bangs, little grains of space dust, a guiding hand or incredible random coincidence; no matter the details or beliefs, the ori...

While it looks at times like you could reach up into the sky and pluck down the Sun, that giant flaming ball of gas that is our ne...

Look up into the sky during the day and you will see the glowing disk that is our Sun the closest star to Earth. Look up into that...

Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2010 - China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday.

Tsukuba, Japan (AFP) March 10, 2010 - It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby.

Toulouse, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - It is the "Swiss Army Knife" of satellites. COMS (Communications, Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite) is the first European 3-axis stabilised geostationary observation satellite to carry three payloads dedicated to meteorology applications, ocean observation and telecommunications.

Washington (AFP) March 9, 2010 - The US space shuttle fleet can continue flying beyond NASA's September 30 deadline if the money is made available to keep it going, a US space agency official told reporters Tuesday.

Hawthorne CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - SpaceX has performed our first Static Fire for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. We counted down to an T-2 seconds and aborted on Spin Start. Given that this was our first abort event on this pad, we decided to scrub for the day to get a good look at the rocket before trying again. Everything looks great at first glance.

Credits: ESA

Credits: ESA

Credits: NASA

NASA Shuttle program manager John Shannon said on Tuesday (Mar 9) that the Space Shuttle Program can indeed be safely extended beyond the existing plan to retire the fleet after completing the four missions currently remaining to fly by the end of 2010. The key issue now is money not safety. “Where the [...]

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Representing what may be the first long term lunar environmental impact study, recent laser ranging data from the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico suggests the Lunar Ranging Retro Reflectors (LRRRs) left on the Moon by Apollo missions 11, 14 and 15 are beginning to shows signs of age.(...)Read the rest of It’s Not Just The [...]

Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. According to their findings, just 3 billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy exploded in a series of blasts trillions of times more powerful than any caused by [...]

Updated at 9:40 EST Tuesday: SpaceX just released the official word on what happened with Tuesday's 3.5 second test-fire of the Falcon 9 rocket. The test aborted immediately after it started, and a a spin start system failure forced the early shutdown. The Falcon 9 sits on Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral [...]