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Deep Space Industries said Tuesday that it plans to start launching its 55-pound FireFly spacecraft in 2015.

The Russian Space Agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015. This will be Russia’s first unmanned lunar since the Soviet era.

Observations of near-Earth asteroid Apophis during this pass could help scientists refine their calculations for closer shaves in 2029 and 2036.

Neil Armstrong lied about inventing his famous "one small step" line on the spot, according to a new biopic.

Stargazers next fall may find the moon is not the brightest object in the night sky. As the newly discovered Comet ISON passes close to the sun between October and December next year, it indeed might become bright enough to outshine the moon.

Two NASA scientific probes named Ebb and Flow are headed for a fateful meeting with a lunar mountain on Monday evening.

NASA keeps tabs on Toutatis and other celestial objects that make close fly-bys of Earth, but the odds of any object devastating the planet within the next few centuries are very small.

Scientists will be watching the eclipse with instruments to get a better understanding of why the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, is so much hotter than its surface.

The total solar eclipse Wednesday will be visible from Cairns, Australia, and some 60,000 tourists will be ready and waiting.

The China National Space Administration announced on Friday plans for its next manned space launch.

Scientists at NASA captured stunning images of a mile-wide asteroid as it approached Earth over three days in late October and early November.

Nobody alive on Oct. 4, 1957, will ever forget the launch of Sputnik 1, the first successful earth-orbiting satellite, by the Soviet Union.

The Syrian foreign minister accused the U.S. and other nations of supporting "terrorism" in his country, during a speech to the U.N.

If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, this weekend the moon may look bigger and more fiery than usual.

Andy Williams, the famous "Moon River" singer, has died after a long battle with bladder cancer.

Moon was born in what is now North Korea.

The International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Tuesday that they will be expanding their efforts in Syria with the help of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees. Meanwhile, the US drags its heels and the UN's efforts have amounted to nothing to stem the violence.

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- a self-proclaimed messiah from South Korea who founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, or Unification Church, businessman, convicted U.S. tax evader and friend of North Korea -- died at the age of 92 on Monday.

Pictures of the blue moon Friday have begun to go viral on Twitter as tweeters from all over post their own photographs. Most people know that the term "blue moon" doesn't mean that the moon is actually blue. However, some denizens of the Twitterverse have chosen to alter their images of Earth's only moon.

The Slooh Space Camera is offering a free live stream of the month's second blue moon. You can check out the second full moon in the month of August, courtesy of Slooh, below.

Friday, Aug. 31 will be the last chance that people get to see the much talked about blue moon, until the year 2015.