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01 February 2013, 01:56 PM ET
Retired astronaut Jerry Ross shares deeply personal memories of the Columbia and Challenger accidents with SPACE.com's Clara Moskowitz. Col. Ross was involved in comforting and counseling fallen astronauts' families.
31 January 2013, 08:51 AM ET
The Skylab experienced a failure that led to a replacement shield to protect against solar heating.
31 January 2013, 06:30 AM ET
The Sunjammer will help test out technology that could be useful for space weather forecasting and interstellar travel.
29 January 2013, 02:28 PM ET
Long-term space experiments on animals can help assess the feasibility of interplanetary travel.
29 January 2013, 02:09 PM ET
A storm from the Atlantic and cold air from Scandinavia combined to create snow conditions.
29 January 2013, 10:36 AM ET
NASA will launch a sounding rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in January 2013.
27 January 2013, 07:30 AM ET
On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA's space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven astronauts were lost during re-entry.
25 January 2013, 01:39 PM ET
A new video serves as a progress report for DARPA's Phoenix program.
25 January 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The strange organisms that thrive at vents today could teach researchers how life arose on our planet.
24 January 2013, 02:00 PM ET
The study of a planetary system might help explain why some planets have odd orbits.
24 January 2013, 11:50 AM ET
In 1901, the star GK Persei, 1,300 Lights Years from Earth, exploded. Images of the remnant (Nova Persei 1901) by the Isaac Newton Telescope and the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain spliced together allow a 3-D model to be created.
23 January 2013, 07:00 AM ET
"The Changing Face of Mars" will premiere tonight at Caltech in Pasadena.
21 January 2013, 11:31 AM ET
Under President Barack Obama, NASA is following a bold mission to send astronauts to an asteroid, and then to Mars.
21 January 2013, 09:50 AM ET
Spaceflyers aboard the International Space Station are getting taking part in inauguration weekend.
17 January 2013, 05:22 PM ET
Material from the solar system's creation clumped together to form our closest star.
16 January 2013, 01:30 PM ET
Commercial spaceflight company Bigelow Aerospace has grand plans for private space stations.
16 January 2013, 12:36 PM ET
Exploration Mission-1, NASA's Space Launch System's first objective, will send the Orion spacecraft but no astronauts. The European Space Agency has partnered with NASA to build Orion's service module.
16 January 2013, 08:50 AM ET
Columbia was the first space shuttle to reach orbit, in 1981. It flew 28 times before disaster struck in 2003.
14 January 2013, 08:32 AM ET
Find out the facts about Titan's heavy atmosphere, lakes of hydrocarbons and the possibility of life.
11 January 2013, 05:48 PM ET
The first female shuttle commander, six-time flier and scientist astronaut are joining Astronaut Hall of Fame.
11 January 2013, 03:43 PM ET
The huge instrument is making good progress toward a planned 2018 launch, NASA officials say.
11 January 2013, 12:24 PM ET
These two star clusters contain hundreds of stars each.
10 January 2013, 06:37 PM ET
The huge asteroid will pass close, but scientists say it won't hit us.
10 January 2013, 12:50 PM ET
Life on alien moons may be just as likely as on exoplanets, scientists say.
10 January 2013, 09:50 AM ET
See photos from the 221st American Astronomical Society Meeting in Long Beach, Calif., in early January 2013.
