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The amount of space junk currently in the orbit has reached a threshold where it increases the danger of possible collision with active satellites and manned spacecraft. NASA needs to find ways to clean up the orbital debris, says a report by the National Research Council released on Thursday.

In an effort to explore how robots can help humans experiment and live in space more efficiently, NASA sent two Android-powered Nexus S phones on the last manned space shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS-135 mission.

Space debris orbiting the earth is becoming increasingly hazardous, researchers warn, with junk posing increasing danger to astronauts and space missions.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Located approximately 160 million light years from Earth, the pair is the nearest known such phenomenon.

A set of new still images collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show in unprecedented detail the jets of glowing gas ejected from young stars, providing a peek at how the sun came into existence.

Global warming and climate change are phenomena that broke the bonds of scientific circles to emerge as a matter of debate between believers and skeptics. Countless studies validating and denying global warming have seen the light of the day, providing fodder for more, often somewhat bitter debates. Within the past month, Nobel Prize winner and leading climate change alarmist Al Gore has called those who deny global warming akin to racists, and pseudo-...

Astronomers have combines years of still images collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to create movies that reveal never-before-seen details about the stellar birthing process. The movies show energetic jets of glowing gas being expelled from young stars and sheds light on the formation of stars like the Sun about 4.5 billion years ago.

On its way to probe Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft took the time to capture its home planet Earth and its moon looking like tiny white dots. JunoCam, the name given to the spacecraft's camera, took the image on Aug. 26 when the spacecraft was about 6 million miles (9.66 million kilometers) away from Earth.

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By chronologically arranging images produced by Hubble, astronomers have been able to construct a sort of film reel illustrating the birth of stars

Six astronauts may need to temporarily abandon and delay the launch of the International Space Station should last week's launch in Russia prevent the crew from flying there this fall.

Man has already been jettisoned into outer space and taken a jaunt across the moon, but a new report finds that being able to launch human missions to asteroids might aid in the thwarting of potentially devastating asteroid strikes, Space.com reported.

NASA's Juno spacecraft took a photo of the Earth from six million miles away.

Creating a simulation, which approximates the formation of the Milky Way using a powerful supercomputer, was no cakewalk for the researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Zurich. After nine months of effort, at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Manno, Switzerland, the first simulation of the formation of the spiral galaxy Milky Way was created by the researchers, who claim it would have taken 570 years to build the simulation o...

Astronomers have revealed startling facts about how widely separated solar reactions are linked, with one eruption somehow triggering the other.

A Global Exploration Roadmap that will introduce a 25-year scenario for visits beyond Earth orbit is being drawn up by Nasa and their counterparts around the world. The destination?

The cause for last week's Soyuz rocket failure that crashed Russia's Progress 44 supply ship heading to the International Space Station has been identified, said Russian news reports.

Pre-packaged food rations may not be adequate to sustain the first manned mission to mars, scientists claim. Experts believe that kitchen Vegetable gardens will give the crew a healthier diet and produce more oxygen onboard.

A malfunctioning gas generator in the Soyuz carrier rocket's third stage engine has been identified by members of the emergency commission as the reason a supply ship didn't make it to the International Space Station, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov told the Itar-Tass on Monday.

Nuclear energy could find a second life on the moon and Mars.