Researchers create the most comprehensive map of the universe ever created.
NASA has said it Hubble Space Telescope has found rare, age-defying stars, the 'blue stragglers', in our galaxy.
A 14-year-old Russian girl hanged herself on May 21 over fears that the world would end, investigators said on Wednesday. She learned about Camping’s predictions and wrote a death diary:
NASA announced plans launch a robot that will gather samples from distant asteroids.
Fifty years later, JFK's moon speech still holds up.
Two Endeavour astronauts have completed the mission's third spacewalk.
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) said it is working on a new capsule that will carry humans into deep space.
NASA's satellites are at work again, getting images of the Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland from space.
252 flights have been cancelled from Scotland down to Newcastle in northern England and more cancellations are expected.
Endeavour's heat shield is damaged but the space agency has cleared it for re-entry as it doesn't pose a major safety problem.
Astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour successfully complete their first space walk.
A 7-years-old student Matteo Lopez from Monte Verde Elementary School San Francisco won the 2011 Doodle 4 Google competition with his imaginative work Space Life, outstanding from more than 107,000 submissions from the entire nation.
NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission, made a statement aboard the International Space Station about the future of space exploration. In addition, as he spoke from space Kelly showed off his wedding ring, which he wears around his neck.
NASA has rolled over space shuttle Atlantis to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for mating the shuttle with its external tank and solid rocket boosters ahead of her July mission to the International Space Station. Take a glimpse of the shuttle hoisted to the high bay for mating.
The newly discovered isolated planets, also called free-floating Jupiters by scientists, are believed to be ejected from developing planetary systems, indicating possibilities of life on other planets as well.
A group of researchers have discovered a new class of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy, which do not orbit a star, and are thus free floating.
The Endeavour space crew made a safe and successful docking at the International Space Station led by mission commander Mark Kelly. The two day flight began with an emotional launch with Kelly's wife Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in attendance.
Endeavour docks at the ISS and begins preparation for the first space walk on Friday.
NASA's fourth space-rated space shuttle, OV-104 Atlantis, makes its final planned move from Orbiter Processing Facility-1 to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The move, called rollover, is a major milestone in processing for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station, targeted for early July.
Space shuttle Endeavour is presently catching up with the International Space Station (ISS) prior to the time that was expected for the docking of the spaceship, NASA reported.
America's two feel good stories come together as both Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the space shuttle Endeavor came together for a inspirational launch day at the Kennedy Space Center. As the Endeavor triumphantly soared into the clouds above, congresswoman Giffords watched from her wheelchair, smiled and exclaimed Good stuff, good stuff.
Endeavour spends its first day in orbit performing a standard scan of the space shuttle's thermal protection system using the Orbiter Boom Sensor System.
