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  • Skydiver Felix Baumgartner during a training jump

    Record-breaking Red Bull space dive grounded by lawsuit

    Fri, Oct 15, 2010 2:19 PM by Space.com

    Project involving skydiver Felix Baumgartner on hold until lawsuit with promoter is resolved.

  • The International Space Station

    Human procreation in space would be perilous

    Fri, Oct 15, 2010 11:05 AM by Space.com

    Microgravity damages human cells, particularly stem cells that repair other cells.

  • Clint Cragg consults with Rene Aguilar, deputy chief of rescue operations for the Chilean mine disaster

    Astronauts to rescued Chilean miners: 'We admire you'

    Thu, Oct 14, 2010 2:32 PM by Space.com

    NASA sent two medical doctors, a psychologist and an engineer to aid the rescue effort.

  • Artist's conception shows the inner four planets of the Gliese 581g system and their host star, a red dwarf only 20 light-years from Earth.

    500th alien planet could be discovered this month

    Thu, Oct 14, 2010 10:50 AM by Space.com

    Astronomers locate new planets by looking at the movement or brightness of stars.

  • Environmental UFO's

    UFO visit will warn us about global warming, says author

    Wed, Oct 13, 2010 4:15 PM by Andrew Schenkel

    Former NORAD officer says aliens are coming on Oct. 13 to warn us about the dangers of gases released into the atmosphere.

  • NASA tent outside the White House

    President Obama signs new vision for U.S. space exploration into law

    Mon, Oct 11, 2010 5:37 PM by Space.com

    The signing officially scraps NASA's previous moon-oriented goal and paves the way for a manned mission to an asteroid by 2025.

  • Space shuttle Atlantis landing, back from its final mission

    NASA closer to getting extra space shuttle flight

    Mon, Oct 11, 2010 4:27 PM by Marcia Dunn, AP

    Last shuttle flight will be to International Space Station.

  • Artist's concept of the ARES airplane flying over the surface of Mars.

    Robot airplanes could unlock Mars mysteries

    Mon, Oct 11, 2010 1:15 PM by Space.com

    The plane, unlike orbiters, would get close enough to the ground to get high-resolution images and chemical sensing data.

  • 8 mysterious images of Mars

    8 mysterious images of Mars

    Mon, Oct 11, 2010 11:55 AM by Katherine Butler

    The fourth planet from the sun, Mars is one of our closest neighbors in the solar system, and yet it remains a mystery.

  • Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite

    World's military projects still dominate space

    Mon, Oct 11, 2010 11:30 AM by Space.com

    U.S. Department of Defense allocated $10.7 billion to boost space-based capabilities in 2009.

  • Virgin Galactic, the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, or VSS Enterprise

    Virgin Galactic, commercial travel space ship, tested

    Mon, Oct 11, 2010 7:34 AM by Agence France-Presse

    Flight test for release from mothership, free flying and landing.

  • US astronaut Scott Kelly

    New crew arrives to oversee space station's completion

    Sat, Oct 09, 2010 8:27 PM by Reuters

    Construction on the space station about be finished in 2011.

  • NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who will command Expedition 26 on the International Space Station, poses for a portrait in his ascent/entry spacesuit.

    For astronaut twin, launching into space is all in the family

    Thu, Oct 07, 2010 12:58 PM by Space.com

    When the brothers meet in space, it will mark the first time any siblings, let alone identical twins, have ever met up in space.

  • gavel

    U.S. Supreme Court scrutinizes NASA background checks in privacy case

    Wed, Oct 06, 2010 12:26 PM by Space.com

    The plaintiffs, who are engineers and scientists, claim they should not be forced to agree to unrestricted and intrusive background checks.

  • New sighting of UFO over China

    Wed, Oct 06, 2010 12:06 PM

    Video: An airport in inner Mongolia reportedly shut down due to UFO sightings.

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