“Space exploration” on The Daily Caller

The launch of Earth’s first asteroid mining company was formally announced Tuesday. (more)

Space spending has long been the multibillion-dollar government project that is rarely discussed and even more infrequently brought up as a primary focus by fiscal conservatives. (more)

Texas Republican Rep. Ralph M. Hall, the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, released a statement Thursday announcing increased congressional oversight of NASA’s development of human spaceflight programs. (more)

The Moon, at least at the bottom of a deep, dark cold crater near its south pole, seems to be wetter than the Sahara, scientists reported Thursday. (more)

Monday afternoon saw good news for pro-NASA reformists everywhere. What at one time appeared to be a never-ending struggle over the future of the nation’s space agency, now looks like something that could be wrapped up in just a matter of days. (more)

Plans for sending humans to visit an asteroid are heating up, with at least one company already scoping out the technological essentials for a deep space expedition within a decade, given the go-ahead. (more)

Call it “American Idol” in space: NASA has launched a new contest that allows the public to pick – or even create – wake-up songs for astronauts flying on the agency’s two final space shuttle missions. (more)

Astronauts who spend months in space become as physically weak as 80-year-olds, a study has found. (more)

Swallowing its pride, NASA says it wants to learn from future commercial missions to the moon – and it is willing to pay up to $30 million for the privilege. (more)

Using Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope program, you can now take an interactive tour of Mars with the highest-resolution images available of the Red Planet — something even scientists have never been able to see before. (more)

Spokesmen from NASA and the White House both issued statements in response to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recent comments that President Obama had told him that it was his  “foremost” mission to make the Muslim world “feel good about their historic contribution to science…and math and engineering.” (more)

The federal employees at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing know darn well why they go to work in the morning. (more)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. (more)

A cargo vessel which failed to dock with the International Space Station is under control, a Russian space agency official has said. (more)

In February, the Obama administration announced its fiscal year budget, which proposed to eliminate the NASA human space flight program, called Constellation, and instead rely on the commercial space industry and other countries to ferry future astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). (more)

A meteor strikes, damaging solar arrays and life support systems, and as you watch the billowing dust cloud move ominously toward your lunar camp, you have to restore critical systems and oxygen flow. Starting July 6, a new NASA video game will let you save the day, in 3-D. (more)

AFP – There is no room for romance on board the cozy confines of the International Space Station, a NASA space shuttle commander said Monday when asked what would happen if astronauts had sex in space. (more)

A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet. (more)

(June 17) — A shaky camera turns on, out of focus in haste to capture something of terrible importance. The camera zooms in, and the image emerges in awful clarity: the space shuttle, destroyed and coasting in helpless orbit, the astronauts almost certainly dead. The impact debris coasts alongside the ruined shuttle in a funeral procession of atmospheric flotsam. (more)

New Hubble images reveal what happened to one of Jupiter’s main cloud belts: It’s hiding behind ammonia clouds. (more)