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Space pioneer John Glenn honored 50 years after historic flight

Hundreds of NASA workers jammed a space center auditorium to mark the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's historic flight, to see and hear the first American to circle the Earth.

Is NASA giving up on Mars? (+video)

Smallest-ever exoplanets found, one step closer to Earth-twin

First Earth-size planets found around distant star – in a bizarre solar system

What will happen after sun vaporizes Earth? Scorched planets hold clues.

Asteroid Vesta features mountain bigger than any on Earth

Messenger's message from Mercury: Time to rewrite the textbooks

In search for life, more planet 'candidates' are found. Are any just right?

NASA's Messenger probe beams back amazing images of Mercury

How Mercury is like Saturn (and other surprises from NASA's orbiter)

End of the world May 21st? About a billion years too soon, astronomers say.

In tonight's meteor shower, watch falling debris from Halley's Comet

First photo of Mercury from orbiting spacecraft

NASA milestone: MESSENGER spacecraft enters orbit around Mercury

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Mercury

NASA probe poised to be first to orbit Mercury

Kepler telescope's astonishing haul: 54 planet-candidates in 'habitable zone'

In search for Earth-size world, a historic first: Kepler finds rocky planet

Kepler-10b: NASA discovers smallest planet outside our solar system

Hey, space hounds! Here's our top space stories of 2010. What are yours?

Geminid meteor shower 2010: Why is the Phaethon asteroid going to pieces?

Should Pluto be restored as a planet? Experts weigh in.

Found: a planet not from the Milky Way, circling a star in its death throes

Other Earths? A new estimate raises the odds of finding them.

In Pictures Space photos of the day: The Moon