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Orbiting high over the lunar surface is LADEE, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, with a mission to probe the moon’s exosphere and dust clouds. It will take readings using a number of spectrometers and specialized equipment, piling up stores of data as quickly as it can manage. In just 100 days of primary operation, it will compile enough ...

David Peterson/via Vimeo The time-lapse video ‘captues’ the view of moving through space while at the International Space Station. David Peterson dreams of flying in space, so he created a film to simulate the view. The filmmaker from Brisbane, Australia, made “The World Outside My Window — Time-Lapses of Earth from the ISS,” which uses pictures from NASA to create ...

One of the International Space Station’s cooling systems has failed. Fortunately, there is a redundant cooling system, otherwise the six-person crew would be quickly bailing out and heading back to Earth aboard a Soyuz capsule before being cooked alive. NASA is now working out how to fix the primary cooling loop, to get the space station back to full working ...

© KYODO Kyodo / Reuters/REUTERS A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island (top), Minamikojima (bottom) and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is seen in this 2012 East China Sea photo. Chinese military officials scrambled a pair of fighter planes Friday after a dozen U.S. and Japanese planes ignored its new air defense zone restrictions. The ...

Last year, news broke that a virus sabotaged the Iranian uranium enrichment program. It seemed all too convenient at the time — and as it turned out, the virus, Stuxnet, was actually engineered by the United States and Israel. Now, the man-made virus has ventured into space, and made its way to the International Space Station. The virus wasn’t planted ...

Chris Hadfield became an overnight sensation with his rendition of Space Oddity [YOUTUBE] The astronaut, who became an internet sensation when he beamed down his version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity from the International Space Station, kept more than one million Twitter followers amused with pictures and videos during his five months in space. He has now shared his observations ...