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There’s an Invader in the International Space Station

An Invader mosaic has found its way to space

This is How Earth Welcomed Back Soyuz

Not a bad re-entry after months on the International Space Station

Artist’s conception of Dawn entering orbit around Ceres

Dawn Has Arrived at Ceres

Downlink connection confirms that the spacecraft is in orbit around the dwarf planet

NASA’s Next Space Robot Was Inspired by a Baby’s Toy

Meet the Super Ball Bot, a flexible robot that could explore new planets

NASA's Curiosity rover caught this image of its drill just days before a short circuit caused it to shut down.

Mars Rover Is Out of Commission (For Now)

Short circuit halts Curiosity in its tracks

Impatient Scientists Used Paint-By-Numbers Technique to Create the First Image From Mars

Scientists used raw data to create their first image of the red planet

See the Winter of Our Discontent…From Space

NASA photo of the eastern United States confirms it’s really, really cold out there

Private Space Investments Will Reach $10 Billion This Year

Make way for money—investors are bullish on space

The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket propelled critical supplies to the International Space Station.

What the SpaceX Rocket Crash Really Looked Like

New images show Falcon 9’s dramatic crash landing

Space Fence, a radar system sponsored by the U.S. Air Force and built by Lockheed Martin, should help the U.S. detect and track more of the estimated 500,000 pieces of space debris.

U.S. Air Force Builds New Radar for Space Junk

It’s called Space Fence and should help us track the estimated 500,000 pieces of debris that orbit Earth

An artist's rendition of Kepler, on the hunt for planets like our own.

Visit Kepler's Exoplanets—And Don't Worry About the Natives (At Least for Now)

NASA has made a set of travel posters themed to exoplanets while a nonprofit searches for life among them

This image, created by a telescope called NuSTAR, is the most detailed of the sun using high-energy rays to date, according to NASA.

NASA Uses X-Rays to Find Out Why the Sun Is So Hot

The image will help scientists decide whether mini-flares make the sun's atmosphere hotter than the surface itself

This false-color composite image shows meteors streaking through the skies over NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on the night of Jan. 3-4, 2012.

Ring in 2015 With the Quadrantid Meteor Shower

The annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks this weekend

Scientists crouch with mock-ups of three generations of Mars rovers. Curiosity is the big one. Opportunity and Spirit were based on the medium-sized one on the left. The small one is front was the Sojourner rover.

NASA's Opportunity Rover Has Developed Robot Dementia

A problem with Opportunity's hardware means it only has short-term memory

Never Mind Mars, What About a Trip to Venus First?

There's a serious proposal to send astronauts to a floating cloud city in Venus's atmosphere before heading to Mars

The view out of the Soyuz window.

If You Looked Out the Window While Returning From Space, Here’s What You’d See

The bright glow of friction in Earth's atmosphere

One of the line items in the new budget is funding for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

NASA Could Actually Get a Budget Boost Next Year

The pending budget will give NASA even more money than they asked for

Enthusiasts examining the patch for NROL-35 think the trident, fire and breeze through the character’s hair might represent the elements—water, fire and wind. “What that has to do with the actual payload, however, is anyone’s guess,” says space historian Robert Pearlman.

The Creepy, Kitschy and Geeky Patches of US Spy Satellite Launches

There may be method to the madness behind the outlandish designs of the National Reconnaissance Office mission patches

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy Rocket lifts off with the Orion spacecraft for its first test flight

A Successful First Flight For NASA's Orion Spacecraft

American spaceflight enters a new era

The Orion capsule idles on the pad atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket just minutes after the launch was canceled.

A Wayward Boat And Other Disruptions Delay Test of NASA's Newest Spaceship

Orion's quest for space will have to wait until tomorrow

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