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Iran on Monday said that it is going to send monkey into space next month, the latest advancement in its space program.

Sleep is essential to human well-being whether on Earth or in the orbit. It is difficult to sleep in a strange place, especially when you are far from home.

NASA space shuttle Atlantis is getting ready for its targeted launch to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:26 am EDT on July 8. Today NASA managers will meet at Kennedy Space Center to conduct the final Flight Readiness Review that is expected to confirm the currently targeted launch date.

Human civilization may come in contact with the extraterrestrial civilizations within the next two decades, according to a top Russian astronomer.

Asteroid 2011 MD, a small space rock the size of a tour bus, zipped past Earth in what was a close shave in cosmic terms. The flyby was tantalizingly close to Earth, and was at some point closer to the planet than some satellites.

An asteroid, named 2011 MD, barely missed crashing on to the Earth's surface today, but the real danger awaits us in 2182 when a gigantic asteroid may be on a collision course with this planet, astronomers warn.

An asteroid measuring 16 to 36 feet will fly by Earth on Monday, with possible viewing opportunities for a lucky few.

NASA will launch an unmanned spacecraft in 2016, aiming at collecting a sample from the asteroid 1999 RQ36, the public enemy No.1 that can also give clues to the origin of life on earth.

High-tech NASA spacecraft Dawn is set to approach Vesta by July 16. Vesta, an asteroid located in a belt region between Mars and Jupiter that's populated by many asteroids, is interesting to scientists because it's believed to be a remnant of an embryonic planet.

NASA said Asteroid 2011 MD, a hunk of rock estimated to be anywhere from 16 to 35 feet wide, is going to fly by Earth today at a distance of 7,500 miles above the surface of the planet.

A series of mystifying flying objects were seen in London skies on Friday, bringing the same unanswered question to the fore - Do UFOs really exist?

On Monday, Earth will encounter an asteroid that will narrowly miss a collision with our planet by a cosmic hair of 7,500 miles. The asteroid called 2011 MD is roughly the size of a large house, 10 meters in diameter, and will fly into our atmosphere zipping by TV satellites.

A US spacecraft is on track to rendezvous with a huge asteroid in a matter of weeks, NASA said, shedding new light on the history of cosmos.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is set to move into an orbit around asteroid Vesta on July 16 and subsequently study it.

An asteroid measuring about 16 feet to 35 feet or the size of a house, will fly by Earth at a handshaking distance on Monday and a lucky few people will be able to see the celestial wonder with their naked eye.

An asteroid, the size of a house, will come dangerously close to the Earth's atmosphere but will zoom by harmlessly on Monday, astronomers said.

On Monday, a small asteroid is expected to just skirt by earth. An asteroid only comes this close about once every 6 years.

A small asteroid is expected to whiz by earth on Monday. It's about 16 feet to 65 feet wide. At its closest, it will be only 7,500 miles from the earth, a distance that's a little less than the diameter of the earth.

NASA has released some rare unseen pictures of the Sun from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms.

NASA has regained some moon dust, that was to be originally sold an auction house in St. Louis.

NASA spacecraft Atlantis is gearing up for the scheduled July 8 launch to the International Space Station.