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Scientists have successfully measured, what they claimed, the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a stellar-mass black hole. The wind is moving at a record-breaking speed of about 20 million mph (32 million kph), or about 3 percent of the speed of light.

Obayashi Corporation, one of the major Japanese construction companies, has a grandiose dream - it plans to build a 'space elevator,' by the year 2050, which will transport passengers almost 60,000 miles high into space, Japanese newspaper Yomiuri has reported.

Rovio is launching the fourth major release in the Angry Birds series Angry Birds Space on March 22 for mobile devices. The game will feature new planets, and users will have to compete with zero gravity while experiencing many new gameplay elements.

It was 50 years ago today that astronaut John Glenn left the earth in what would become on the most historic flights. Glenn's capsule, the Friendship 7, soared 162 miles from Cape Canaveral, Fla., into outer space.

Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, NASA no longer has the ability to fly astronauts in space, a decision Glenn lays squarely on the shoulders of the Bush administration.

It seems this earth is too small for the flock of angry birds whose goal in life is to destroy the greedy green pigs who stole their eggs. That's right, Angry Birds is all set to blast off into space and the date of their cosmic trip has been set for March 22..

Standing by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Everett, Wash., on Friday, President Barack Obama called on Congress to reshape the corporate tax code to benefit companies that keep jobs in the United States, giving a boost to the domestic manufacturing sector and exports.

NASA's Robonaut did some handshaking at the International Space Station.

A pair of Russian cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday to prepare for the removal of a Russian docking module due to be flown into the atmosphere for incineration next year.

Space junk now in Earth's orbit will be blasted into dust by a new Swiss satellite called the CleanSpace One, and its mission is a critical one. NASA says nearly 95 percent of the objects in the above picture are junk. Though Switzerland is not responsible for adding to that amount of space debris, they aim to be the ones cleaning it up. The Swiss Space Center is building the CleanSpace One satellite for the express purpose of finding, collecting and destroying not functional satellites and o...

A group of ‘hacktivists’ calling themselves L0NGwave99 took on the stock exchange earlier this week after announcing their intentions on Sunday. Through coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS ) attacks the group, which acted in conjunction with the formless and international hacker collective Anonymous, and in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, temporarily shut down the public websites for NASDAQ, BATS stock exchange and the Chicago Board options Exchange (CBOE).

President Barack Obama's proposed 2013 budget for NASA boosts spending at the Kennedy Space Center, which bore the brunt of job layoffs at the end of the space shuttle program last year, the center director said on Tuesday.

The spectacular image, which combines data captured by four telescopes, depicts the celestial event which Chinese astronomers witnessed in 185 AD. The mysterious phenomenon, termed as guest star, remained in the sky for eight months, they had noted.

Last minute Valentine's Day gift shoppers hoping to surprise their paramours with a bouquet of balloons are in for a deflating surprise this year. A global helium shortage is causing supply-chain disruptions for gift shop owners, raising the possibility that there won't be enough of the lighter-than-air gas to fill out the tens of thousands of foil hearts, flowers and puppies gifted every February 14.

The videos were captured using time-lapse photography and a Nikon D3S.

NASA has released stunning night images captured from the vantage point of the International Space Station. Captured by a still camera aboard the ISS orbiting 240 miles above the Earth, the pictures will soon be available via NASA Television's video file.

A Romanian man accused of hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles under the online moniker "Iceman" has been indicted on a federal charge, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Former astronaut, Janice Voss, passed away from breast cancer late Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz. Voss was one of only six women to make five trips into space and to serve twice as payload commander. She was 55. As a five-time shuttle astronaut, Voss' career at NASA was one of dedication to scientific research and exploration.

NASA is looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers said on Tuesday.

Felix Baumgartner's space jump will take place in 2012, the Austrian daredevil's sponsor, Red Bull, confirmed this week.

The stunningly innovative designs, which NASA calls greener flying machines for the year 2025, are being developed by three firms, all based in California.