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The best meteor show of the summer comes during the second week of August.

A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. Nicknamed the "Peony nebula star," the bright...

(European Space Agency) The Heads of the International Space Station Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met today at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation.

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 18, 2008 - This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere.

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft makes movie of moon transiting Earth.

(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics will hold the SPACE 2008 Conference and Exposition Sept. 9-11 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, Calif. The conference's theme: "Future Space: National Priorities, Critical Decisions," will thoroughly examine three main themes of the 2008 presidential campaign: American economic competitiveness, the global war on terror, and the need for increased monitoring of global climate change.

NASA scientists are using an infra-red sounder in space to improve short-term weather forecasting.

Students from the STARBASE Atlantis Naval Air Station education program in Corpus Christi, Texas, will participate in a live in-flight education downlink with the International Space Station on Wednesday, July 23, from 9:15 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. CDT.

The grants will focus on improving science and engineering education.

SPACE.com - NASA scientists planned to instruct the Phoenix Mars Lander to test out its method for shaving and collecting ice for a second time Friday.