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Click here for a rapid summary of the role of Rosetta Maybe this blog post should disappear into oblivion along with Rosetta. ...

In this small demo video produced in the International Space Station , the astronaut Scott Kelly uses a pair of hydrophobic paddles to play...

I spent a most pleasant hour or so this afternoon watching a web news presentation of the launching by the European Space Agency of a pair ...

For this poor little frog, the journey to space and back didn't last more than a few seconds, and I would imagine that his return to Ear...

It's never too early to start looking around for new worlds that might be colonized, one day, by our human descendants. Incidentally, it...

An article in this morning's Australian press made the unexpected suggestion that my native country should get involved in some kind of ...

Around noon on Monday [French time], a few hours after the successful landing of Nasa's Phoenix vessel on the surface of the planet Mars...

Ever since the 19th century, people have speculated seriously about the possibility that living organisms might have come into existence on ...

Yesterday's docking of the European space cargo Jules Verne with the ISS [ International Space Station ], 200 miles above the Atlantic...

It was great to learn that the Atlantis shuttle was finally launched successfully yesterday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Aboard, there...

Back in February 2007, I already wrote two posts about "astro-nut" Lisa Nowak , who allegedly attacked a romantic rival: Astronaug...