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A notional concept of a solar-electric-powered spacecraft, designed to capture a small near-Earth asteroid and relocate it safely close to the Earth-moon system so astronauts can explore it.

Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky this month, will be joined by tiny Mercury for a rare celestial show this weekend.

The Astro2010 Decadal Survey recommended a Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope as its top priority for a new large space mission.

Someday astronauts will find themselves deep in outer space, in need of spare spacecraft parts on an inhospitable place like Mars.

There's a Clay County traffic alert that commuters will need to be aware of Friday morning.

When this image of the Ring Nebula was captured in 1998, it was the sharpest view yet of the famous nebula.

The orbital camera on the GOES-13 satellite imaged the movement of the supercell thunderstorm that erupted Monday afternoon in the south-central United States and as they developed into the Moore, Okla.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing Rapid Prototyping Facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center to view some of the cutting-edge technology being used to create parts for the engines of the Space Launch System .

Forget Little Caesar's Hot and Ready, in the future you'll be able to print your own pizza at home.

I love everything to do with space and space travel. I remember the hairs standing up on the back of my neck when I watched the first men land on the moon in 1969 .

When a deadly tornado tore through the central Oklahoma city of Moore, many survivors emerged from their storm shelters to see their homes blown away.

SGI , the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Ames Research Center has selected an SGI UVTM 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active users around the country who are doing research for earth, space and aeronautics missions.

Maureen Clemmons, "Aunt Mo" with her telescope in Reseda. Clemmons regularly pulls out her telescope for neighborhood kids to look at the sky with.

The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress that a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program to add 60 more launches and extend the schedule for a decade would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion.

Air Force pilot Scott Powell returned home three weeks early from a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, surprising his children at school.

Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon.

Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday shows.

Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

This image provided by NASA shows Carroll Whitley, NASA Engineering Technician, left, and Nicholas Karavolos, New Horizons Regional Education Center, HVAC student working on a Barany chair at the NASA Langley facility in Hampton, Va., Thursday May 23, 2013.