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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 dome was located in a place with no animals and little vegetation around

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

Juno's instruments and camera could provide insights into the history of the solar system

Space probe Juno arrives in orbit around Jupiter

News / 05 Jul 16

An artist's illustration of the space probe

NASA spacecraft nears Jupiter for key mission

News / 04 Jul 16

Juno is due to arrive at Jupiter within the next week

Spectacular new images of Jupiter captured

Science / 27 Jun 16

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