Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
New era in private space flight begins
LOS ANGELES -- After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology te...
An experiment riding on the final voyage of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis is set to test out technologies that could be used on future robotic spacecraft.The experim...
A private spaceship mission to the International Space Station is on track for a planned April 30 launch, which will mark a historic first for the orbiting laborator...
The launch of the first commercially built space capsule to the International Space Station will occur at the end of April, NASA officials announced Thusday, March 1...
NASA will launch five rockets in five minutes Wednesday, March 14, to study fast-moving winds at the edge of space -- and many skywatchers along the United States ' ...
John McCain and Barack Obama have spent the past few weeks fighting over the state of the economy and whether pigs wear lipstick, but they also have real policy diff...
A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side — a view people on Earth never see.The new video was captured by...
A huge unmanned rocket carrying a secret new spy satellite for the United States roared into space Sunday, Nov. 21, to deliver what one reconnaissance official has t...
The private spaceflight company Armadillo Aerospace is taking a close look at the results from its latest rocket test in the New Mexico desert — a flight that hit a ...
An unmanned rocket lit up the Florida night sky Thursday, Jan. 19, as it launched a vital new communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. military — the first m...
Russia is talking with the US and Europe on plans to create a manned research base on the moon, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Thursday.Roscosmo...
Has bacteria in astronaut poop left on the moon been genetically altered? Did solar wind and ultraviolet radiation destroy the flag at Tranquility Base, landing site...
A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-...
For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of th...
NASA plans to drop nearly $310 million from the budget for its Planetary Science division in 2013, a 20 percent cut that affects future missions to Mars, lunar scien...
A new company backed by two Google Inc. billionaires, film director James Cameron and other space exploration proponents is aiming high in the hunt for natural resou...
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NASA is making a cosmic U-turn on the road to Mars.For the past two decades, the U.S. space agency has been practically obsessed with Mars. It has hardly missed an o...
America and Europe have come together with one motto in mind -- Mars or Bust: 2016.On the deep space road trip, the latest collaboration between the European Space A...