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Researchers in Puerto Rico , which passed within 6 million kilometers of Earth, or about 15 times as far as the moon -- and were surprised to see the small satellite orbiting the asteroid. By bouncing radio waves off the asteroid, researchers were ...

Ann McClain's mother was in her front yard rose garden when her daughter called with the news. "You'll never forget this moment," McClain, a 34-year-old major in the U.S. Army told her mom. "I've been selected as an astronaut candidate ." Her ...

The US space agency announced the appointment of eight new astronauts, and a record half of Nasas first astronaut class since 2009 are women. The astronauts will earn between $64,000 and $141,000 per year, and will be part of the team that lays the groundwork ...

Add this to your worry list: orbiting somewhere near Earth are an estimated 13,000 asteroids big enough to possibly level a country and NASA has no clue as to when, where or whether they might strike. Worse, astronomers think their sky maps might ...

International Space Station astronaut Chris Cassidy broke new ground this week by controlling a robotic rover at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. The first of three monthly sessions between an ISS crew member and the K10 rover is ...

NASA has issued The Asteroid Grand Challenge, an effort to solicit ideas for how to capture an asteroid and, later, send humans to asteroids. On Tuesday, NASA announced an Asteroid Grand Challenge that solicits the public's help in proposing ...

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, June 20 -- NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., has issued a pre-solicitation notice (NND13477308Q) for the purchase of two additional licenses ...

On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be turned to image Saturn and its entire ring system during a total eclipse of the Sun, as it has done twice before during its previous 9 years in orbit. But this time, the images that will be collected have ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) continues to ignite excitement by exploring the Solar System. High-Resolution Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera, courtesy, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems When Explorer 1, built by NASA's ...