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07 November 2012, 02:21 PM ET
The space agency has likely been holding off until the presidential election was decided.
07 November 2012, 01:44 PM ET
The space station is the largest manmade structure in orbit today, but it helps to know when it can be seen.
06 November 2012, 02:32 PM ET
Astronomers first noticed that Comet Hergenrother was splitting up on Oct. 26.
05 November 2012, 07:00 AM ET
Both NASA astronauts aboard the space station have already voted in the presidential election.
03 November 2012, 06:38 PM ET
The retired shuttle orbiter Atlantis arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center.
02 November 2012, 10:04 AM ET
The retired Space Shuttle began is short trek to its new home at the Kennedy Space Center on November 2, 2012.
02 November 2012, 07:01 AM ET
When it comes to Mars sample return missions, it's humans vs. robots.
02 November 2012, 07:00 AM ET
Asteroid belts like the one between Mars and Jupiter appear to be rare beyond our solar system.
01 November 2012, 05:39 PM ET
Satellite spots Sandy becoming a remnant low pressure system.
31 October 2012, 01:52 PM ET
The Mariner 10 spacecraft gave us the first close-up view of the sun's closest planet.
30 October 2012, 02:53 PM ET
The private Dragon spacecraft was recovered and brought back to port after its first official cargo delivery mission.
30 October 2012, 01:03 PM ET
This artist's concept space wallpaper depicts an itsy bitsy planetary system -- so compact, in fact, that it's more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets.
26 October 2012, 05:22 PM ET
A new space rock-deflecting scheme proposes that a cloud of paintballs shot into space could knock a dangerous asteroid off a collision course with Earth.
26 October 2012, 12:10 PM ET
The Viking mission to Mars gave scientists their first look at the Martian landscape.
26 October 2012, 07:00 AM ET
The storm, which was first observed in December 2010, was even more powerful than researchers had thought.
22 October 2012, 02:48 PM ET
Astronomers spotted a rare X-ray nova near the center of our galaxy, revealing a stellar-mass black hole siphoning gas off a sun-like star.
20 October 2012, 12:54 AM ET
The new meteor shower is caused by the comet 209P/LINEAR, scientists say.
19 October 2012, 06:19 PM ET
A spectacular solar prominence larger than the Earth erupted from the sun on Friday (Oct. 19).
15 October 2012, 01:16 PM ET
New research suggests the majority of exoplanets have relatively flat orbits.
10 October 2012, 04:01 PM ET
See images of the science museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, new home of retired shuttle Endeavour.
10 October 2012, 03:00 PM ET
NASA turned its Chandra X-Ray Observatory to planetary nebulas in our solar neighborhood (within 5000 light years). These objects are the remains of red giant stars that shed most of their mass as they condense into white dwarfs.
10 October 2012, 04:32 AM ET
The robotic Dragon spacecraft is making the first commercial cargo run to the space station.
08 October 2012, 02:02 PM ET
An overview of NASA HQ, which oversees the space agency's many science, exploration and spaceflight activities.
08 October 2012, 11:30 AM ET
See photos of Earth's northern lights sent in for Oct. 2012.
06 October 2012, 04:50 PM ET
Researchers are really excited to be able to study the Astronaut fluids that will be returned to Earth from the Space Station on SpaceX's return flight home. Bone density issues that are experienced in space travel will be scrutinized.
