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  • NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered

    NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system 

  • Cyprus may get its moon rock after 40 years

    Cyprus may finally get its piece of the moon. Some 40 years ago, the Mediterranean island nation was supposed to receive a 1.1 gram piece of moon rock ... 

  • Sun unleashes strongest solar flare of 2013 so far

    The sun has fired off a massive flare, the strongest solar eruption this year. The powerful flare occurred Sunday and erupted on the side of the sun ... 

  • Project aims to track big city carbon footprints

    Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and ... 

  • 'Ring of fire' eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific

    The moon glided between the Earth and sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light, for the few skygazers lucky enough to see Friday's "ring ... 

  • NASA sees distant planets that seem ideal for life

    NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right ... 

  • Israeli high-tech pioneer Efraim Arazi dies

    Efraim "Efi" Arazi, a pioneer of Israel's powerful high-tech industry who helped develop technology that allowed for a video recording of the first ... 

  • Hawaii land board approves Thirty Meter Telescope

    A plan by California and Canadian universities to build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano won approval from ... 

  • Soviet Mars spacecraft possibly spotted in photos

    Space fans from Russia scanning NASA images have spotted what may be a Soviet spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1971 and then mysteriously stopped ... 

  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking: Explore space for humanity's sake

    Stephen Hawking, who spent his career decoding the universe and even experienced weightlessness, is urging the continuation of space exploration — for ... 

  • Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer

    NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday. 

  • Mars missions scaled back in April because of sun

    It's the Martian version of spring break: Curiosity and Opportunity, along with their spacecraft friends circling overhead, will take it easy this ... 

  • Mars rover back in action after computer problems

    The Mars rover Curiosity is humming again after being sidelined by back-to-back computer problems. The six-wheel rover fired up its onboard ... 

  • NASA: Flash in East Coast sky likely a meteor

    East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief but bright flash of light streaked across the ... 

  • George Efstathiou

    Scientists find universe is 80 million years older

    A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more ... 

  • Amazon CEO recovers Apollo engines from Atlantic

    Rusted pieces of two Apollo-era rocket engines that helped boost astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the murky depths of the Atlantic, ... 

  • NASA moon craft spots Ebb and Flow crash sites

    When NASA's twin spacecraft Ebb and Flow crashed into the moon last year, scientists did not count on seeing the aftermath. On Tuesday, the space ... 

  • Mars rover Curiosity stands down after new problem

    After recovering from a computer problem, the Mars rover Curiosity is sidelined again, further delaying the restart of science experiments. The latest ... 

  • Mars rover shows planet could have supported life

    Drilling into a rock near its landing spot, the Curiosity rover has answered a key question about Mars: The red planet long ago harbored some of the ... 

  • Comet making closest approach ever of Earth

    A recently discovered comet is closer than it's ever been to Earth, and stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere finally get to see it. 

  • NASA Mars rover in safe mode; science halted

    Science experiments by the NASA Mars rover Curiosity have been put on hold as engineers troubleshoot a problem with its computer. NASA says the ... 

  • Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby

    It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built ... 

  • Black holes in galaxies rotate fast, study finds

    There's a new spin on supermassive black holes: They're incredibly fast, astronomers say. It's long been suspected that gigantic black holes lurking ... 

  • House votes to rename flight center for Armstrong

    The House has approved a bill to rename a NASA flight center in California for the late astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. 

  • NASA Mars rover analyzing powder from drilled rock

    The Mars rover Curiosity has successfully transferred a pinch of rock dust to its onboard laboratories for inspection, two weeks after drilling into ... 

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