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Japanese engineers have devised a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe's journey back to Earth.

NASA has joined astronaut Randy Bresnik, who is in orbit, in the waiting game for the birth his daughter.

Astronauts on the linked shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station said Friday that they're not worried about recent false alarms that disrupted their sleep with erroneous reports of calamity.

Actor Dwayne Johnson, formerly known as "The Rock," is helping to spread the benefits of NASA in a new series of public service announcements (PSAs) timed with the release of Sony Pictures' animated feature film "Planet 51."

New images show results of collision between giant galaxy and smaller neighbor.

The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

NASA's second attempt to drive stuck Mars rover Spirit results in some small movement.

An aerospace engineer from Maine, the reigning champion of NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, held onto his title Thursday to win first prize in a competition to build a better space glove than those worn by astronauts today.

NASA's new asteroid-hunting spacecraft will roll out to the pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Nov. 20 in preparation for launch.

Shuttle astronaut Randy Bresnik is stuck in space while his wife prepares to give birth to their first daughter.

A proposed space mission that aims to measure dark energy could also detect planets that current surveys are unable to find.

Atlantis astronauts breezed through the first spacewalk of their mission to the space station on Thursday.

NASA is offering $400,000 to the inventor who can make the strongest and most dexterous spacesuit glove Thursday in the second Astronaut Glove Challenge.

Apollo 12 - the 2nd manned lunar landing - made a pinpoint landing in Nov. 1969 and helped reveal the moon's origins.

Artist concept of the Hayabusa spacecraft. Credit: JAXA

As we reported last week, it seemed as if the Hayabusa asteroid explorer mission was dealt a fatal blow when the third of its four ion engines failed. But the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced yesterday that it may have come up with a solution to that problem to get Hayabusa back home by using components from two different inoperable thrusters in combination.(...)
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