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NASA to grow lettuce in space
9-15-2013 |
20
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will soon be attempting to grow their own vegetables.
Flying frog photobombs NASA rocket launch
9-14-2013 | 26
An adventurous frog managed to steal the show during the launch of NASA's LADEE spacecraft this week.
Voyager 1 has now left the solar system
9-13-2013 | 35
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first ever man-made object to reach interstellar space.
Virgin Galactic passes second test flight
VIDEO 9-7-2013 | 12
Space tourim is inching ever closer as Virgin Galactic conducts a second successful test flight.
Kirobo becomes first robot to speak in space
VIDEO 9-5-2013 | 4
Japan's wide-eyed Kirobo android has become the first robot to ever speak from outer space.
China to launch moon mission by end of year
8-30-2013 | 37
China is stepping up its space program with plans to launch a lunar probe before the year is out.
NASA releases new asteroid mission images
8-25-2013 | 13
The space agency has revealed new concept images detailing their plans to land astronauts on an asteroid.
Astronaut details near-drowning experience
8-21-2013 | 12
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano had been out on a spacewalk when his helmet started to fill with water.
Ancient Egyptian jewellery came from space
8-20-2013 | 17
A set of ancient funeral beads discovered in Egypt are made from materials found in a meteorite.
Is crowd-funding the future of space travel ?
8-17-2013 | 6
Exploratory space missions of the future may be funded by ordinary people, not government agencies.
NASA's Juno spacecraft is halfway to Jupiter
8-13-2013 | 15
Set to explore beneath Jupiter's obscuring cloud cover, the probe will reach its destination by 2016.
Talking robot heads to space station
VIDEO 8-4-2013 | 8
A talking humanoid robot has blasted off on board the unmanned Konotori 4 space cargo transporter.
Massive hole in the sun discovered
7-30-2013 | 16
A huge coronal hole covering almost a quarter of the sun is spewing gas and material in to space.
New moon discovered around Neptune
7-19-2013 | 22
Archive images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a previously undiscovered moon.
China's astronauts ready for longer missions
7-17-2013 | 6
The Chinese space program has been going from strength to strength lately with no signs of stopping.
Pluto spacecraft spots Charon for first time
7-12-2013 | 11
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has celebrated another milestone - its first photograph of Charon.
Can we explore space for $1 million ?
7-9-2013 | 8
A tiny type of satellite and a new propulsion system could make cheap space exploration a reality.
Russia’s space program deemed 'ineffective'
7-7-2013 | 13
An audit of Russia's space program failures has revealed it to be poorly managed and disorganised.
Landing on asteroids may cause avalanches
7-5-2013 | 26
The surface of an asteroid may not be quite as stable a place to land a spacecraft as previously thought.
Arthur C Clarke's DNA to venture in to space
6-28-2013 | 3
A few hairs from the late science fiction author will be on board a pioneering new solar sail mission.
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