A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon and long thought…
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Space: The junk-filled final frontier
The alerts from U.S. Strategic Command now arrive every couple of weeks--warnings that space junk is…
Gallery: Chinese space flight
As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond…
NASA maps moon’s gravity
Two robotic probes began orbiting the moon Sunday in preparation for an unprecedented mission to map…
Russia sends multinational crew into space
Russia has sent a multinational crew of three astronauts to the International Space Station on a…
NASA spots earth-sized planets
Astronomers have said that for the first time they have spotted two Earth-sized worlds orbiting a…
Canadian scientists make deep space camera
Scientists from the University of British Columbia have constructed the electronics that take data from a…
Gallery: the year in space travel
From take off to landing and everything in between, see the best space travel photos of…
Doomed gas cloud rushing toward black hole
Astronomers have spied a giant gas cloud with several times the mass of Earth accelerating toward…
Airplane-space travel plan unveiled by Microsoft co-founder
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen have announced plans for a new space travel system that would use…