The Moon's highlands, long a mystery, may have been thrown up billions of years ago by…
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European telescope detects oxygen in space
The European Space Agency’s Herschel telescope has found the first confirmed evidence of oxygen molecules in…
U.S. shuttle debris surfaces amid Texas drought
A piece of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia has surfaced in eastern Texas, where a severe…
Is there a backup plan for the International Space Station?
The space shuttle flew to the International Space Station 37 times, but its retirement leaves NASA…
SpaceX eyes Nov. 30 cargo launch to space station
Space Exploration Technologies, a privately owned firm developing a space taxi with U.S.-government backing, plans to…
Canadians find Earth’s first ‘Trojan’ asteroid
Earth has an intriguing little companion in its journey around the Sun.
NASA probe poised for launch to heart of Jupiter
A NASA satellite was hoisted aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force…
Space station to be sunk after 2020: Russian agency
Russia and its partners plan to plunge the International Space Station (ISS) into the ocean at…
Other countries enter space race as U.S. exits
As NASA retreats from an ambitious human spaceflight program for the foreseeable future, other countries are…
End of an era for U.S. spaceflight as Atlantis lands
The shuttle Atlantis cruised home for a final time Thursday, ending its last mission to the…