Miriam Kramer joined Space.com as a Staff Writer in December 2012. Since then, she has floated in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight, felt the pull of 4-Gs in a trainer aircraft and watched rockets soar into space from Florida and Virginia. She also served as Space.com's lead space entertainment reporter, and enjoys all aspects of space news, astronomy and commercial spaceflight. Miriam has also presented space stories during live interviews with Fox News and other TV and radio outlets. She originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee where she and her family would take trips to dark spots on the outskirts of town to watch meteor showers every year. She loves to travel and one day hopes to see the northern lights in person. Miriam is currently a space reporter with Axios, writing the Axios Space newsletter. You can follow Miriam on Twitter.
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NASA's newest deep space capsule Orion, is getting ready for its first unmanned test flight, launching next week.

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A new crew of three arrived at the International Space Station today (Nov. 23) after a quick trip to the orbiting outpost.

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A new three-person crew is launching to the International Space Station atop a Russian rocket today (Nov. 23), and you can watch the liftoff live online.

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A huge number of stars shine brightly in an amazing skywatcher photo of the Andromeda Galaxy.

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Relive last week's thrilling comet landing tonight with a documentary about the historic space mission airing on PBS tonight (Nov. 19).

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A spooky new image shows a web of bright galaxies aligned in the largest structures ever discovered in the universe.

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The annual Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight and you can watch it live online.

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For the first time in history, a spacecraft built on Earth has softly landed on the face of a comet speeding through deep space.

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A European spacecraft is attempting to make history by landing on a comet in deep space, and amazing new photos show the daring endeavor in action.

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After a nail-biting silence, European scientists are back in touch with a probe currently descending to the face of a comet speeding through deep space.

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Scientists have picked up on the mysterious "song" of a comet speeding through deep space.

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Scientists on Earth are hoping to land a probe on the face of a comet for the first time Wednesday (Nov. 12), and they are now one step closer to accomplishing that goal.

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A European probe is expected to make an audacious landing on the face of a comet tomorrow (Nov. 12), and you can follow it live online starting today (Nov. 11).

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European scientists and engineers are gearing up to soft-land a robotic probe on the mysterious surface of a comet for the first time.

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NASA is getting ready to launch a daring test flight of a capsule that could eventually bring humans to deep-space destinations like Mars or an asteroid.

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The investigation into the explosion of a private rocket last week is eyeing the launch vehicle's first-stage engines, which were made in the Soviet Union at the height of the space race.

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An amazing new photo taken by a NASA probe shows Saturn and its large moon Titan shining as pretty crescents in deep space.

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A probe chasing a comet is about to make a daring attempt to land on its deep-space target, and now, the robot's landing site officially has a name.

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Syfy is adapting Arthur C. Clarke's much lauded novel, "3001: The Final Odyssey" into a television miniseries, the network announced Monday (Nov. 3).

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The private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences has put together an investigation team to do a deep dive into what went wrong when the firm's Antares rocket exploded shortly after launch on Oct. 28.
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