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The next episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" airs Sunday (May 18), and it promises to delve into big questions about death and immortality....

The lovable monkey and the Man with the Yellow Hat launch to the Red Planet, and deliver a Curiosity-type rover. ...

The adventurous primate Curious George is heading to Mars for the first time in a special episode of the cartoon airing Monday (May 19)....

Microorganisms from Earth could hitch a ride on spacecraft and end up colonizing the Red Planet and other celestial bodies in the solar system, recent research suggests....

An advanced Russian communications satellite was destroyed Thursday (May 15) when its Proton rocket booster failed minutes after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....

Well-liked children's book character Curious George visits the red planet in an upcoming episode of his TV show....

In preparation for his Mercury Redstone-2 flight, Ham checks out his life support system and couch....

A basketball-sized Earthgrazer meteor, not part of any meteor shower, entered Earth's atmosphere at 78,000 mph above Columbia, South Carolina and burned up just north of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It traveled a total of 290 miles. ...

The ESA Venus Express will dive to an orbit of 80 miles above Venus with the atmosphere-skimming maneuver. Mission controllers hope to maintain the orbit from June 18th - July 11th, 2014....

The space agency has approved a new mission called K2 for Kepler. The telescope's original exoplanet hunt came to an end in May 2013 when the second of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels failed, robbing it of its precision pointing ability. ...

Matthew McConaughey's character is tapped to search for humanity's next home in the first full-length trailer for the new Christopher Nolan movie. ...

The first full-length trailer for the new movie "Interstellar" was released online today (May 16), and it's a doozy....

A rare, long-lasting fireball streaked through the skies of the southeastern the United States Thursday night (May 15), putting on a show for stargazers lucky enough to see it from the ground....

The Venus Express probe is running low on fuel. So mission officials wrapped up routine science operations this week to begin preparing the spacecraft for a deep dive into the planet's fast-swirling air....

The ambitious private project, the first of its type, is attempting to reuse the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe (ISEE-3), which launched in 1978 and ceased science operations in 1997....

SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to leave the International Space Station and splash down intact in the ocean on Sunday (May 18), and you can watch it live online....

The bold asteroid-redirect plan may also feature the first in-space test of the "enhanced gravity tractor" technique, which could help steer dangerous space rocks away from Earth....

Communications were lost with rocket carrying an advanced communications satellite 540 seconds after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 16th, 2014. July 2013 Proton Explosion: http://goo.gl/9yMJ2S...

The space rock named 2014 JG55 is estimated to be between 10-26 feet wide, traveling ~6 miles per second. It made its closest approach to Earth on May 10th, 2014, the same day it was discovered....

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is the target of ESA's Rosetta mission, which will attempt a landing (http://goo.gl/LiiyAY). The spacecraft’s scientific imaging system, OSIRIS, captured imagery of the comet between March 27th and May 4th, 2014. ...