SPACE

Wrapping up a mission that lasted six-and-a-half months, three members of the Expedition 31 crew undocked from the International Space Station and landed safely in the steppe of Kazakhstan in the early hours Sunday.

Three Chinese astronauts, including the first woman, returned to Earth after their manned spaceship successfully docked to another craft in orbit. The Shenzhou 9 space capsule safely parachute landed about 10 a.m. Beijing time Friday in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, following a 13-day mission that marked a major stride in China's ambitious space program.

Why are people in China upset at their own space program?

On Saturday, China will send a female astronaut into space for the first time.

By the end of this week, China may have already finished its first manned space docking and successfully sent its first woman into space.

China is preparing to launch a manned space flight to an orbiting space laboratory in the middle of this month, according to state media reports and China's human spaceflight agency.

A scientist aboard the International Space Station took extraordinary photos of the starscape from aboard the vessel, using a special technique that highlights their movement.

Space shuttle Enterprise took its final journey Wednesday to its retirement home on a floating museum off the western edge of New York City and you can check it out in person in just over a month's time.

For the very last time this century, skywatchers and astronomers around the world got the opportunity to witness the rare astronomical reunion of the Sun, Venus and Earth Tuesday. Venus, the second brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon, made a rare pass in front of the Sun, making its presence in the solar system visible from Earth's day side.

By aiming their instruments at the transit of Venus, astronomers can see if they are able to detect clues about Venus' atmosphere using methods that could be applied to observations of far-flung worlds.

The rise of private space companies and foreign space programs, combined with an interest in lunar mining, is likely to bring the issue of extraterrestrial property rights into focus in the next few decades.

Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon cargo ship started heading back to Earth from International Space Station on Thursday after the first test flight.

Private-sector initiatives in space made history Friday when SpaceX?s Dragon space capsule was grappled by and attached to the International Space Station.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has become the first non-governmental agency to fly to the International Space Station and dock with orbiting laboratory.

Marking the beginning of the second demonstration mission for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 3:44 a.m. EDT.

Back in the day a million dollars would buy you a solid piece of Manhattan real estate, now it can buy you a 12 foot parking space.

Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, has announced a plan to offer space travel opportunities to civilians, in partnership with Bigelow Aerospace.

?Dead Space 3,? the follow-up to Electronic Arts action adventure horror, may include drop-in drop-out co-op, reports IGN. Players will have the option of slaying aliens alongside a male character with a ?gnarly scar? on his face, his own engineering RIG, and ?glowing red eyes peering from his helmet.?

A female scooter rider in China killed a man on April 19 by squeezing his testicle during an argument over parking space. The Chinese woman squeezed the local store owner's testicles until he collapsed during the fight over parking space.

A Soyuz space capsule carrying two Russians and an American landed safely in central Kazakhstan Friday.

The space shuttle Enterprise rides on the back of a modified Boeing 747 jet on Friday, bound for JFK Airport. The shuttle's new home will be Manhattan's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.