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NASA has picked the design for its next big rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). This heavy-lift booster will carry humans farther than they've ever been, to an asteroid, Mars and beyond.
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Rigel and Betelgeuse are easy to spot, and reveal even more through a telescope or binoculars.
President Barack Obama's 2013 budget proposal for NASA offers only a modest cut overall, but bites deep into Mars funding and planetary science.
See a rundown provided by the White House depicting the major highlights of President Obama's proposed 2013 budget for NASA.
Money to explore new technology, but not that much for science: an overview of the Agency's annual ammunition.
The agency's planetary science programs suffer a 20 percent cut in the budget for fiscal year 2013.
See a rundown provided by the White House depicting the major highlights of President Obama's proposed 2013 budget for NASA.
A programming error caused the crash of the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, according to an investigation.
An outpost near the lunar far side could enable robotic exploration of the moon.
Funding cuts will probably force NASA to withdraw from the European-led ExoMars missions.
See artist's illustrations of potential gateway stations for deep space exploration.
NASA is close to announcing its intention to pull out of the European-led ExoMars mission, according to reports.
Europe's Mars Express probe was launched in June 2003 and arrived at the Red Planet in December of that year.
The Mars Express probe detected strong evidence that there were large bodies of liquid water on ancient Mars.
Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and several prominent giant stars highlight a brilliant month in the night sky. Tonight's Sky for February 2012 shows how to see them all.
The tragedy that killed three astronauts changed spacecraft design forever.
Russian officials are looking into whether U.S. radar interference could have caused the Phobos-Grunt malfunction.
Charlie Bolden was touring a Lockheed Martin facility on Jan. 10.
NASA is looking at missions that would get humanity get out of low-Earth orbit.
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