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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....

Sixty years later, Graduate Research Fellowship recipient's granddaughter receives prestigious NSF fellowship More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131557&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is an NSF Discoveries item....

Scientists are making PHA (a biodegradable polymer similar to the polypropylene used in yogurt containers) from waste methane More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131553&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is an NSF Discoveries item....

Storm chaser Scott Sheppard was hit by lightning while filming near Fairburn, S.D., on Tuesday -- and the entire scene was caught on video, which you can see above. Sheppard was recording the storm on an iPhone from inside a car with his arm stuck out the window when he was hit. "The strike hit his arm and then traveled down to the ground and blew a hole in the pavement," SevereStudios wrote in the...

Researchers at the University Medical Centre Utrecht are experimenting using stem cells in 3D bio-printing....

The use of antibiotics on farms without medical supervision has been condemned at a meeting of the world animal health organisation....

A new paper  in Nature Climate Change asserts that global warming is causing the hybridization of trout – interbreeding between native and non-native species – to increase in the interior western United States. read more ...

The open-access, open-data journal GigaScience (published by BGI and Biomed Central), announces today the publication of an article on the genome sequencing of 3000 rice strains along with the release of this entire dataset in a citable format in journal's affiliated open-access database, GigaDB. The publication and release of this enormous data set (which quadruples the current amount of publicly...

Google has announced that it will start building its own self-driving cars. They will have a stop/go button but no controls, steering wheels or pedals....