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Columbia Basin College is home to the first high school team in Washington to be awarded the prestige of being part of the 20th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race. The "SpaceHawks" were admitted after building a prototype with PVC pipes and bicycle parts and submitting it as an entry.

Apparently, many people are taking this Mayan calendar thing seriously!

Part of the process of exploration and learning is trial and error.

Near misses are better than getting hit by an asteroid, but tonight you might be able to see it!

It's been quietly buzzing over our heads, round and round the earth for a year, and it's coming back down soon.

While we firmly believe in the US Space Program, and support NASA-as do many Americans-this story makes us think they've inhaled too much space dust...

New Yorkers who looked up into the sky on Friday were treated to something simply amazing. The Space Shuttle Enterprise rocketed past such iconic New York City landmarks as the Statue of Liberty and One World Trade Center before coming in for a landing at JFK airport. Luckily, photographers caught the close encounter.

Imagine being an astronaut on a mission who’s stuck with the same old food for weeks or months (it’s not like you can call out for pizza). Like most people who are faced with similar dining choices day after day, you’d likely eat less — and that’s a concern for scientists. So they’re recruiting volunteers to help them test out edible fare in preparation for a future mission.

As part of his 2012 fiscal budget that was unveiled monday, the Obama Administration plans to cut deeply from the military,  Justice Department, Homeland Security, and NASA.

Lots of little kids dream about becoming astronauts — and for some lucky grown-ups, those dreams could become a reality. NASA recently concluded an open call for civilians to apply for a spot in the next astronaut class.