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First light for space telescope

A powerful Nasa space telescope launched in June has unveiled its first results - including an image of the sky viewed through "gamma-ray glasses".

Virus infects space station notebook

Wired reports that a password stealing worm has been taken aboard the International Space Station in an astronaut's notebook.

Rocket racer remade

Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002.

Computer virus strikes space station

NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, Expedition 17 flight engineer, uses a computer while working with an experiment in the Japanese Kibo laboratory of the international space station. A computer virus was detected aboard the space station on July 25, 2008, but did not infect the space station's command and control computers.

Malware infects space station laptops

Is it a bird? A plane? A comet? A meteor? No, it's the International Space Station, falling out of the...

Mars rover makes tracks

Opportunity is about to make tracks away from Victoria Crater, seen in the background of this picture the rover snapped in April 2007.

Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)

Viruses intended to steal passwords and send them to a remote server infected laptops in the Space Station in July, NASA confirmed Tuesday.

Space shuttle to move to its launch pad

The U.S. space agency is planning the first liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A since it was damaged during a May launch.

NASA rover ready to leave Victoria Crater

The U.S. space agency's rover Opportunity will soon be back on Mars' plains after nearly a year in a large Martian crater studying ancient rock layers.

NASA renames observatory for Fermi

The U.S. space agency says it has renamed its newest spacecraft -- the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST -- in honor of Enrico Fermi.

NASA's 'electronic nose' could sniff out cancer

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Malware infects space station laptop

Malware has managed to get off the planet and onto the International Space Station, NASA confirmed today. And it's not the first time that a worm or virus has stowed away on a trip into orbit.

Hubble presents a view of an active galaxy

Dust lanes, star-forming regions, hydrogen filaments, foreground stars, and background galaxies are seen by Hubble Space Telescope optics. The filaments, shaped by a strong magnetic field, are around an active galaxy.

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Telescopes

1. Conventional wisdom says that Dutchman Hans Lippershey invented the telescope in 1608, but legend has it that the device was really invented three years earlier by kids playing with lenses in a spectacle-maker’s shop. That kind of stuff used to happen in the days before the Xbox.

Computer virus hits space station

A computer virus has made it onto the International Space Station (ISS), but Nasa says there is no danger to critical systems.

Computer virus hits space station

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NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Victoria Crater

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.

Computer Virus Reaches International Space Station

Laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG, officials confirmed.

Malware infects space station laptops

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Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars

This red-filter image taken by the Phoenix landers Surface Stereo Imager shows the sun rising on the morning of sol 90 (Aug. 25) the last day of the Phoenix nominal mission. The Phoenix Mars mission has been extended through the end of September 2008 ...

Colliding galaxies shed light on dark matter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have captured images of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters and say it may shed light on the behavior of dark matter.

Colliding galaxies shed light on dark matter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have captured images of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters and say it may shed light on the behavior of dark matter.

Telescope puts never-seen objects in view

A new space telescope, launched less than three months ago and now flying in orbit 350 miles above the Earth, is detecting powerful bursts of mysterious energy from stars and galaxies far beyond the Milky Way, an international team headed by a Stanford physicist reported Tuesday.

GLAST begins its mission

New York, Aug 27: American space agency NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays.