Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The first images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter provide a fresh perspective on the moon, just weeks before the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing.

NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts will tweet what no one has tweeted in orbit before: He’ll be sending his Twitter updates in Spanish as well as English.

Scientists say the Red Planet's scant snow falls from clouds that are similar to the thin clouds of ice crystals seen over Earth's polar regions.

In a fresh set of research papers, scientists add perspective to the Phoenix Mars Lander's findings about Martian water and soil.

The company behind the dark Irish beer Guinness will give loyal drinkers a taste of space along with their stout, but only if they win new contest.

Leave it to a bunch of Canadians to discover snow falling on Mars. "To discover something new about another planet is as good as it gets," said York University professor Jim Whiteway, the lead Canadian scientist involved with NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander.

Thanks to Catalogblog for the link. Here is the text from the NASA website : On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system.

A Baltimore native is one of nine candidates to begin astronaut training this summer.

An artist's rendition of SpaceShipTwo as it journeys in suborbital space above Earth.

For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international space station.

The outer-space indie "Moon" puts the alien in alienation. Ever-interesting Sam Rockwell stars as Sam Bell, a contractor running a one-man mining operation.

Inventors, researchers and small business owners hoping to receive a portion of $2.3 billion in federal grants attended the National Institutes of Health's 11th annual Small Business Innovation Research conference.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached its destination just last week , is already showing its stuff.

See moonshadows on Saturn's rings, volcanoes on Earth and Mars and other out-of-this-world imagery from June 2009.

In two studies published in the edition of Science Express, international teams have analyzed gamma-rays from two dozen pulsars, including 16 discovered by Fermi.

An industry team led by The Boeing Co. has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a new, ultra-lightweight power generation system for spacecraft.

Written by ITT Sensors to help meteorologists improve short-term forecasts ROCHESTER, N.Y.---ITT Corporation announced today that its latest weather sensors have successfully launched into space.

A knob wedged against a cockpit window in shuttle Atlantis was freed, NASA said Tuesday, giving engineers a chance to look more closely at any damage it caused.

NASA has chosen two Space Camp graduates as part of the nine 2009 inductees into the astronaut corps.

To NASA's relief, a fueling test on space shuttle Endeavour uncovered no hydrogen gas leaks Wednesday and paved the way for another launch attempt late next week for the delayed mission.

The first Canadian crew member of the International Space Station says his new home is big, but he's learning his way around.

An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies.

The Review Panel on U.S. Human Space Flight has placed photos and information collected in Huntsville on its Web site.

The U.S. and Japanese space agencies have produced a digital topographic map of Earth that covers more of our planet than ever.

An Atlas V rocket blasts off the launch pad headed to the moon, carrying a pair of science probes that will scout out potential landing spots for astronauts, Thursday afternoon, June 18, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.