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NASA agents confront a 74-year-old woman at a Denny's to recover moon artifact.

NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002.

Win a chance to go behind the scenes at Vandenberg Air Force Base and watch the launch of the NPP satellite, Oct. 27.

Cold water vapor found near star 175 light years from Earth.

The enormous German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is expected to strike Earth on Saturday, anywhere inside an area that stretches from North America to South America and their adjacent waters.

For the first time, researchers and astronomers at the Herschel Space Observatory have observed cold water vapor enveloping a dusty disk around a young star.

China may be the first country to own land on the moon.

NASA has released a set of visuals and video showing millions of fire detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instruments onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.

A “strongly matching comet storm akin to what occurred in our solar system several billion years ago that may have brought water and life sources to Earth, has been discovered in an alien solar system.

Details on the defunct ROSAT satellite as it falls to Earth.

Human activity in melting regions.

Space fans saddened by the retiring of the space shuttle Endeavor will be excited to learn that NASA has contracted a private spacecraft for at least one chartered flight into near space. The U.S. space agency has confirmed a deal with Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's private-sector space initiative, for one suborbital flight on the company's spacecraft SpaceShip Two, with the option of two additional flights.

Comet won't pass near Earth again for 12,000 years.

Germany's defunct ROSAT satellite will fall back to Earth some time this week, but German space officials say the fall site is still a mystery. The satellite is expected to plummet to Earth between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24.

A German satellite, out of control, is set to plunge back to Earth this week.

Huntsville, Alabama to give $250,000 to cash-strapped space center.

Comet Elenin, an icy comet described by some as a 'Doomsday Comet' and the latest to swing by our inner solar system, closely passed by Earth early Sunday. It was estimated that Elenin would pass about 22 million miles (35 million kilometres) from Earth.

Virgin Galactic has confirmed an order from NASA for up to three charter flights on its privately-built spacecraft to provide opportunities for engineers, technologists, and scientific researchers to conduct cutting-edge experiments in suborbital space. One flight is scheduled and two more are optional.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has been selected to provide U.S.-based NASA with up to three charter flights on SpaceShipTwo, under a contract with a value of up to $4.5m.

A massive algae bloom on the waters of Lake Erie in the U.S. is believed to pose a significant threat to aquatic life forms in the lake.

NASA has booked a charter suborbital flight on Virgin Galactic -- the company owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS -- which aims to become the world's first commercial spaceline.