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See photos from the Expedition 40/41 missions to the International Space Station, with images taken by the outpost's crew....

See photos from astronaut Alexander Gerst who is about to take off on a mission to the International Space Station, along with five others....

How strong is the proof for cosmic inflation, the event that drove the Big Bang?...

Three new crewmembers are set to launch on a quick trip to the International Space Station, and you can watch them blastoff live online today (May 28)....

The Sweden-based Moonhouse Project send a self-assembling house to the moon as part of a lunar art installation late 2015. See images of the Moonhouse Project in this Space.com gallery....

A new project — called the Moonhouse — asks space fans around the world to contribute money to a crowdfunding effort that could put an art installation on the moon by 2015....

The Moonhouse project is hoping to crowd-fund a mission to the moon that will deliver and construct a nearly 8 foot tall house. They hope to hitch a ride on an 'Astrobotic' lunar rover mission set to launch in Oct. 2015. ...

The private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences Corp. has delayed the launch of its second robotic resupply mission to the International Space Station to fully investigate a malfunction that caused the failure of a rocket engine on a launch pad....

Jerrie Cobb, who was part of the FLATs program, poses next to the Mercury space capsule....

A Russian-Ukrainian Sea Launch-3SL rocket on May 26 successfully placed the Eutelsat 3B commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit....

Our Milky Way galaxy is a 'magnetic dynamo’ generating a generally spiral-shaped field. ESA's Planck spacecraft’s edge on view makes the whorls of magnetic field lines appear a bit like a fingerprint....

When Google took credit for a 2012 UFO sighting, the image it offered bore little resemblance to photos at hand. That's because the balloon was a prototype, and one that had gone rogue, says a Google team leader....

A Japanese satellite equipped with a sharp-eyed synthetic aperture radar launched Saturday on a mission to map the globe every two weeks....

Expedition 40's Reid Wiseman of NASA, Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency launched to the International Space Station on May 28th, 2014. ...

Three crew members of Expedition 40/41 launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft on May 28, 2014, for a four-hour ride to the International Space Station....

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched three new crewmembers on an express trip to the International Space Station....

NASA's giant new rocket, the Space Launch System, and its Orion space capsule are making progress toward two key test flights in the upcoming years. See how far along NASA's new rocket and spacecraft are, and what's next for the U.S. space vehicles....

Based on the findings of an independent review panel, NASA has taken stock of its fleet of orbiting astrophysics telescopes and decided which to save and which to shutter. ...

The official trailer for the movie, hitting theaters in June 2013, kicks off with an interrogation of man, who has heard the mysterious 'Signal'. ...

The "torus model" may be woefully inadequate when explaining what is actually going on....