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Could the ambitious project of developing a laser-powered space elevator, a 'railway line' into space, turn science fiction into reality?

NASA's Earth Observatory team has published enhanced satellite images comparing before and after shots of the northeastern Japanese city of Sendai after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck the coast, pointing out areas hit by flooding.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour prepares for its final mission today, moving from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad.

Data from NASA satellites shows both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting faster, and making them a bigger contributor to sea level rise.

Discovery lands for the final time, ending a remarkable 30-year career.

The Discovery spends its last full day in space with some live music and routine check ups.

NASA finds itself in a sticky situation over the meteorite alien life report from one of its own.

William Shatner gives the the crew members of the space shuttle Discovery and its crew members an epic wake up call.

The crew of the space shuttle Discovery gets a message from Captain Kirk.

“Life on Earth may [actually] have come from other planets,” stated an article in The Journal of Cosmology based on the findings of Dr. Richard B. Hoover.

The U.S. Air Force's second mysterious robotic mini space vehicle, X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, blasted off from Cape Canaveral, carrying classified payload. Soon after the launch a media blackout shrouded the mission, fuelling speculation about its possible military purposes.

A new technology, originally used for plant growth experiments on space shuttles, can reduce the pain that comes from chemotherapy.

In the wake of the failure of the Glory mission, NASA is setting up a mishap investigation board to find out what happened.

NASA said its Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach orbit.

President Obama tells Discovery astronauts talks about the Discovery shuttle and gives ISS commander Scott Kelly an update on his sister-in-law, senator Gabrielle Giffords.

For two years sunspots nearly disappeared. Now a team of researchers may have found where they went.

NASA explained the mystery behind the decreased solar activity during the Sun's 11-year cycle, linking it to the changing speeds of plasma inside the Sun.

Among the new solar systems discovered by the Kepler spacecraft are planets that share orbits and one that orbits its star in a single day.

NASA said it has rescheduled a media teleconference to Wednesday 2 p.m. EST to discuss the first computer model that explains the recent period of decreased solar activity during the Sun's 11-year cycle.

The crew of the Discovery space shuttle has installed the Permanent Multipurpose Module onto the underside of the International Space Station.

Greg Laughlin, an astrophysicist from the University of California at Santa Cruz has evolved a formula to come up with a monetary valuation for planets in the Universe, according to which planet Earth is the most expensive at 3000 trillion pounds, or almost $5000 trillion!