SPACE

There is a lot of useful material in otherwise dead space junk. Now the military's wing of crazy, cool geniuses is going to build mini-satellites to go get it out. Recycling goes space age.

The Halloween bug has bitten everyone, including three astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

A space rock, asteroid 2005 YU55, will zoom by Earth inside the orbit of the moon on Nov. 8. As its closest approach, the asteroid will pass within 201,700 miles or 325 kilometers of Earth at 6:28 p.m. EDT (2228 GMT).

It seems even the beauty of space isn't enough to distract astronauts from playing with Angry Birds.

Astronomers were finally able to catch a good look at Pluto's twin planet, the distant Eris and is one of the brightest objects in the solar system.

Elenin an "ex-comet," one that should soon be forgotten. on Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif gave this assessment of Comet Elenin which became an internet sensation when it was tagged as a “doomsday” comet that would bring disaster to Earth.

China is making its presence felt in the space industry with the launching in November of its first spacecraft capable of docking with a module that was earlier put into the orbit.

The Dragon capsule, a prototype passenger spaceship developed by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), is set for a practice cargo run to the International Space Station in December. The capsule will carry food, water and other station supplies

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has observed strange hollows with reflective walls and peculiar depressions that range in size from 60 feet to over a mile across and 60 to 120 feet deep. What's even more peculiar is that NASA scientists are stumped as to how these hollows got there.

German space officials may have felt relieved when the ROSAT satellite avoided heavily populated Asian cities by crashing into the South Asia’s Bay of Bengal.

NASA's Spritzer space telescope has detected signs of a comet storm in a nearby solar system that is similar to how our own solar system developed several billion years ago.

A video footage showing an apparent alien in the Amazon jungle has been posted online and a paranormal claims that the footage is the best proof that extraterrestrials exist.

The mystery of how water was able to survive Earth's fiery past has always baffled scientists. Earth had been a very hot planet and any water would have simply evaporated. A European team of astronomers may have the answer to the age-old riddle with a discovery of a reservoir of water vapor in space.

Nothing rallies scientists together more than the possibility that their carefully ordered universe will undergo a shift in reality. Physicists from around the world are now presenting theories that debunk the discovery of faster than light neutrinos.

China is on the course to becoming the world’s space superpower and this interest could be due to the moon’s abundance of helium-3 to be used as fuel for nuclear fusion, while the moon’s raw materials could be turned into the water, oxygen, building materials and rocket fuel needed for human exploration.

Space debris can be turned into space resource when a new program that seeks to recycle still-functioning pieces of defunct satellites into usable satellite parts or even a completely new spacecraft gets into the works.

Several research studies have revealed cave-like formations about a meter deep in the moon which scientists believe were actually entrances to a complex labyrinth of lunar tunnels.

The formation of the youngest plant from gas and dust was captured by a University of Hawaii astronomer Adam Kraus.

Looks like the Space Race isn't over after all. The United States may have put the first man on the moon by Russian scientists and cosmonauts are now looking to start the first lunar base.

Commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic has officially opened its spaceport in New Mexico, USA to serve as the jump-off point of space tourists 12 months from now.

The Orionid meteor shower is the second meteor shower astronomers can look forward to in October. The more dramatic Draconid meteor shower blazed its way across the night sky in early October but for those who missed the Draconids, the Orionids offer a more reliable stargazing experience that is no less spectacular.

In August 1883, a Mexican astronomer took a picture that was later regarded as the first photographic evidence of extraterrestrial life. Now some astronomers think this photograph wasn't evidence of life on another planet but a comet that could have obliterated all life on Earth.

The chance of anyone being hit by the debris of the defunct German satellite ROSAT's X-ray telescope, expected to fall to Earth this week, is one in 2,000, but what is sure is that 1.6 tons space junk will re-enter the atmosphere.

While it brought fear to some who believed that Comet Elinen would bring the Earth to extinction, astronomers now say that only a stream of debris of the supposedly “doomsday comet” have reached the atmosphere.

The 2.4 ton ROSAT X-ray telescope is expected to crash to Earth between October 20 and October 25, not November as earlier predicted due to enhanced solar activity.

The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), also known as the alien hunter telescope will be the most gigantic optical telescope all over the world. Its mirror alone will have 137 feet wide or half the size of a regular football field.

Those who want to experience a suborbital ride and get a view of the Earth may soon realize their wish.

Barring weather interruptions, Thursday's night sky will show the moon and planet Jupiter shining close to each other in a spectacular view at around 10:00 pm EDT from mid-northern latitudes.

The Iranian Space Agency (ISA) has failed to send a live monkey into space using the country's indigenous rocket.