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For the night-owls, look up in the northern sky a little after midnight on Sunday December 11th and the moon which ought to be blazing down will be strangely dim.

Despite many reports to the contrary, it seems UARS fell into the southern equatorial Pacific, not Canada.

Early reports are just in; UARS fragments have been discovered south of Calgary in Canada.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the clearest images yet of the various Apollo landing sites.  Memo to the nay-sayers: the landings really did happen - here's photographic proof.

In planning since 1959, NASA's Gravity Probe B was launched in 2004 to test two key predictions of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  With great success.

We hear so much about the wonder of the Geminid meteors, but how do we see them in Australia?

Satellite operator NewSat has launched a broadside against the National Broadband Network calling on the three independent MPs who hold the key to forming the next federal government to look at alternative technology solutions.

After a mission failure in 2009, NASA plans to launch the replacement Orbiting Carbon Observatory in February 2013.

Space Shuttle Atlantis will lift off in four days time carrying a sliver of wood cut from the apple tree under which Isaac Newton felt the sudden impact of gravity.

Launched earlier today, the US Air Force's unmanned space vehicle is a miniature version of the Space Shuttle.  Planned to stay in orbit for up to nine months, does this herald a new stage in the militarisation of space?

arlier this year, an astronaut on the International Space Station sent the first direct tweet from space. It's now been revealed that this was achieved by using a virtual desktop.

It's interesting what you can see when you have somewhere new to stand and look.  The SOHO probe launched by NASA and ESA recently observed a train of comets crashing into the sun.

This evening, seventeen students from Doncaster Primary School took their chance to speak live with an astronaut on the International Space Station.