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'Planet Biden' Discovery Signals Another World

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NASA Is Letting People Choose Its Next Uber-Techy Spacesuit

By Laura Stampler

America and Russia Are Stuck Together in Space

By Jeffrey Kluger

Moon Camera for Sale (The Pictures are Free)

By Jeffrey Kluger
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See the First Ever Interactive From the Moon's North Pole

The first American spacecraft to photograph the moon up close did its work in the last 15 minutes of its life. On the morning of July 31, 1964, the Ranger 7 spacecraft was falling toward...

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Hubble Space Telescope observes a grand cosmic nursery

The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a gift on the occasion of its own 24th birthday. Like nearly all of the riches Hubble has showered down on us over nearly a quarter of a...

By Jeffrey Kluger

Magnificent Seven: LIFE With America's Mercury Astronauts

Photos from the early days of NASA's Project Mercury, when Shepard, Glenn, Slayton, Grissom, Schirra, Cooper and Carpenter were legends in the making.

By Ben Cosgrove

U.S. and Russia Will Stay Space Pals

Even with all the smack talk between Moscow and Washington, space makes good bedfellows

By Jeffrey Kluger

Space Trio Return to Earth After 166 Days in Orbit

The group was all in good health after landing

By David Stout

WANTED: Asteroid Hunters

NASA is enlisting lay people to help locate asteroids as part of its new Grand Challenge

By Maya Rhodan

NASA's Super Smart — and Awesome — Instagram Take on Cosmos

How the space agency's social-media team capitalized on interest in the universe

By Lily Rothman

Hubble GIF Shows Never-Before-Seen Asteroid Breaking Up In Space

New images reveal an asteroid crumbling to approximately 10 smaller pieces, a space scene never before captured in such dramatic detail.

By Alex Fitzpatrick

The Month's Best Space Photos

An album of space images—including a poignant shot of a blacked-out North Korea—tell this month's tale of our place in the cosmos.

By TIME Staff

Watch the Great Lakes Freeze Over

Beautiful time lapse imagery shows Lake Superior and the rest of the Great Lakes freeze over during this year's brutally cold winter

By Bryan Walsh

The Amazing Lunar Module: From Early Models to the Moon

Behind the craft's complex development is an audaciously straightforward idea

By Ben Cosgrove

Curiosity Rover Takes Its First Pic of Earth From Mars

It's just a Pale Blue Dot, as Carl Sagan would say

By Eliana Dockterman

The Month in Space Photography: From Saturn to Mars and Beyond

The moon blocks the sun, some new rockets get a workout and a tarantula lives on the other side of the universe. The cosmos never fail to thrill

By TIME Staff

A Look at America's Next Space Machines

NASA is making its current push with two new machines: a crew vehicle dubbed Orion and a rocket that is better known better by its acronym—SLS

By TIME Photo

NASA's Hot New Ride for 2014

The Orion crew vehicle is set to fly in the fall. Is this the start of an American resurgence in space?

By Jeffrey Kluger

The Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire: Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee

On the anniversary of one of the worst disasters in NASA's history, LIFE remembers astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died in a fire on a Cape Kennedy launchpad on Jan. 27, 1967.

By Ben Cosgrove
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