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Britain's first official astronaut Tim Peake has been selected for a five-month mission to the International Space Station.

NASA said Wednesday the Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in space.

The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before _ to see the new "Star Trek" film.

The JetStar roller coaster had become an unofficial monument to Hurricane Sandy's power before it was pulled from the ocean with a clamshell crane and dropped in pieces onto a barge.

After spending more than $200 million, the Pentagon's advanced research branch has decided to scrap one of its key space projects, System F6, which aimed to distribute functions of a big satellite into several small ones orbiting in a tight formation.

And electric engines could turn out to be a key element in NASA's goal of sending people to Mars, experts say.

Panasonic has a new camera, the AG-HPX255. Let's take a look at their new hand-held P2 camera offering, as well as their new monitor, the BT-LH1850. Panasonic lent a friend of mine the AG-HPX255 to test out.

Yes, X-Prize billionaires are failing their mission: "Making the Impossible Possible." Now they need at least $10 trillion to save the world, and a far grander vision, the new "10X-Prizes." And their leader, Dr.

A nice look at the surface of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Sorry to see this the last targeted flyby of Rhea.

That was the farthest total distance for any NASA vehicle driving on a world other than Earth until yesterday.

Before forming VALIS , bassist Van Conner was a founding member of Screaming Trees.

Back on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told reporters during a video webcast from Houston.

Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse Named Methone, this small, oval moon was seen in close-up for the first time last year by NASA's Cassini spacecraft .

Momofuku chef David Chang recently visited NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory in Houston, TX, where he teamed up with Tested's Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage to help figure out how to make space food a little more exciting for astronaut Chris Hadfield .

The 411 Movies Top 5 03.22.13: Week 374 - Top 5 Space Movies Posted by Shawn S. Lealos on 05.17.2013 From Star Wars and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to Aliens , Starship Troopers , Armageddon and more, the 411 staff counts down the top five space movies of all time! Welcome to Week 374 of the Movie Zone Top 5. My name is Shawn S. Lealos and you ... (more)

NASA unexpectedly announced this week that Kepler , the planet-hunting spacecraft, has put itself in a safe mode and gone offline.

The new film "Star Trek Into Darkness," represented with this movie still, prompted the Virginia Air & Space Center to hold a new event called Sci-Fi Fest.

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet across.

NASA's first space shuttle, the test orbiter Enterprise, was named after the fictional starship on Star Trek in response to fans staging a write-in campaign.

Since her historic mission in 1983, 55 women, including cosmonauts, astronauts and payload specialists, have flown in space with NASA.