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The 10-tonne Hubble space telescope was launched in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery

Gyroscope trouble sees Hubble switch into 'safe mode'

The launch marks the first time in nearly a decade that NASA has had a tool in orbit to measure ice sheet surface elevation across the globe

NASA launches satellite to track changes in polar ice

The unmanned Parker Solar Probe aims to get closer than any human-made object to the centre of our solar system

NASA launches spacecraft on mission towards Sun

Parker Solar Probe / 12 Aug

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite soared into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft launched

Science and Technology / 19 Apr

An artist's impression of the eight planet Kepler-90 star system compared to our own (pic: Nasa/Wendy Stenzel)

First eight planet system found by Kepler telescope

Science / 14 Dec 17

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in 1969

Man on the Moon: A brief history of lunar landings

News Lens / 16 Dec 17

Buzz Aldrin walks on the Moon on 20 July 1969

Trump directs NASA to send astronauts back to the Moon

World / 12 Dec 17

Flashes of light as seen from space

Lightning strikes - as seen from space

News Lens / 30 Nov 17

Uber said it is the first formal services contract by NASA covering low-altitude airspace rather than outer space

Uber teams up with NASA to develop 'flying taxi' routes

Business / 08 Nov 17

Asteroid 2012 TC4 is forecast to fly past Earth next in 2079

Asteroid size of school bus passes close to Earth

Science and Technology / 12 Oct 17

The spacecraft's last gasp transmissions took 83 minutes to reach Earth

NASA's Cassini craft completes plunge into Saturn

cassini / 15 Sep 17

An artist's impression of Voyager 1 passing behind the rings of Saturn

NASA marks 40th anniversary of Voyager launches

Science / 06 Sep 17

Peggy Whitson, 57, completed a mission to the International Space Station that began in November 2016

Record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson back on Earth

World / 03 Sep 17

The storm looks like a churning red knot on the planet's surface

Spacecraft to overfly Jupiter's raging red spot

Science / 10 Jul 17

Robert Lightfoot was speaking on a visit to University College Dublin

NASA chief urges Ireland to grow its space sector

Science / 23 Jun 17

NASA's Kepler space telescope

NASA's Kepler discovers ten more potential new worlds

News / 20 Jun 17

NASA's Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates (Pic: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ten possible 'Goldilocks' planets found in Milky Way

NASA / 19 Jun 17

NASA plans to dive Cassini into Saturn's rings 22 times

NASA prepares for Saturn probe showdown

Science / 05 Apr 17

Eugene Cernan, Commander of the Apollo 17 lunar mission, is welcomed back to Earth by a US Navy Pararescueman

Last man to walk on the Moon dies aged 82

News / 16 Jan 17

John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth and also the oldest person to go into space

Former US astronaut John Glenn dies aged 95

News / 08 Dec 16

Musk said the aim is to send flights every 26 months

Musk unveils SpaceX's vision for colonising Mars

Science / 28 Sep 16

The craft will arrive at its target in August 2018

Rocket carrying NASA asteroid probe blasts off

Science / 09 Sep 16

The experiment is hoped to assist in planning for a mission to Mars

Scientists emerge from year-long Mars simulation

News / 29 Aug 16

It is hoped up to 200g of samples will be extracted from asteroid Bennu during the 2018 rendez-vous (Pic: NASA)

Final preparations underway for asteroid mission

Science / 18 Aug 16

The picture is made from some of the first images taken by JunoCam (Pic: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)

Juno sends back first in-orbit view of Jupiter

Science / 13 Jul 16

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