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Planning is under way to reinvigorate a Mars sample return mission.

The Big Dipper and the Southern Cross are useful constellations to know.

(ESA/Hubble Information Centre) New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer than previously thought -- 45 million light-years instead of 65 million light-years.

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Astronauts are using a Star Trek tricorder-like device to keep track of microscopic life forms onboard the International space Station.

Space.com - The crew of the space shuttle Discovery successfully completed a dress rehearsal today for their upcoming launch. They capped off their practice run at Cape Canaveral with a simulated countdown to liftoff at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

LiveScience.com - The devastation wrought in Myanmar by a Tropical Cyclone Nargis is revealed in new NASA satellite images.

A Mars spacecraft carrying a DVD of thousands of names was intended to increase public interest in space missions. But the unintended consequence was lasting space memorials to Donald Duck, John Lennon, Adolf Hitler and Malcolm X.

AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task ? getting elected to public office.

Reuters - Seven astronauts climbed inside the space shuttle Discovery on Friday as part of a dress rehearsal for a May 31 mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station.