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Laura Dattaro

Budgets for NASA and Webb Telescope undecided

The Senate passed its version of the 2012 budget that delegates the budgets for NASA. It includes full funding for the James Webb Space Telescope.

The space shuttles: Where are they now?

The space shuttle program was one of the most visible, successful and adored missions in NASA's history. Here's where the space shuttles will end up.

James Webb Space Telescope model in Baltimore

A 12,000-pound James Webb Space Telescope model visits the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Read more about it here.

Tim Otto Roth on using Hubble data as art

German artist Tim Otto Roth uses green laser light to project Hubble spectra onto a surface. The exhibit is currently on display in Baltimore, Maryland.

Exoplanets found in old Hubble data

Using data from 1998, astronomers have found two previously unknown planets orbiting distant suns. How many more exoplanets lie hidden in old data?

New ESA images reveal inner workings of galaxies

Newly released ESA images of Holmberg II and Markarian 509 reveal these galaxies' inner workings. Both have stories unlike that of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

International Space Station has three new crew

All of launch dates are tentative, but are a welcome step after concerns that launches would cease due to an unmanned Soyuz crash over Siberia on August 24.

GRAIL spacecraft launch success and moon-bound

The instruments on the twin GRAIL spacecraft lunar orbiters are so precise they can detect a change in the distance between them the size of a red blood cell.

Hubble movies show supersonic stellar jets in motion

Combined Hubble images show jets in motion from young stars.

International Space Station might be de-manned by November

International Space Station managers are being forced to adjust the space station's flight manifest following the August 24, 2011 crash of a Russian cargo ship in Siberia.