SPACE

NASA is commissioning a new washing machine design that could mean astronauts get a clean change of underwear every day. An energy and water-efficient machine on board the International Space Station (ISS) could save astronauts from enduring the stench of their garments and having to send them out into the atmosphere to be incinerated.

Worms are beating humans in the space race. Humans may have continuously occupied at the International Space Station for 10 years in rotations, but 12 generations of worms have reproduced and survived six months in space without a break, according to a new study.

Space Sport: Astronaut Plays 'Spaceball' Baseball in Space [VIDEO]

This year three station crew members, one American and two Russians, will celebrate Thanksgiving with freeze dried turkey in silver packages out in space.

The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has sent high-resolution images, which includes those of a 'monstrous-giant storm,' which stayed alive for 200 days on the northern part of Saturn.

Carmen Dell'Orefice, indisputably the world's oldest working model, will be the subject of a major photographic retrospective honoring her 66-year career in the fashion industry.

This mind-blowing tour of the Earth from the unmatched vantage point of the International Space Station is a uniquely wondrous view of the spectacular world we live in.

A Russian Spaceship with a Russian and American crew launched for the space station Monday morning.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is no stranger to questions on space and the universe. The acclaimed American astrophysicist spent his Sunday answering questions online, but from an unlikely source - Reddit users.

All efforts to make contact with the mission have apparently failed.

NASA is preparing to launch its largest and most advanced Mars rover at the end of the month. It will spend nearly two years examining areas of the Red Planet.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 18 dwarf galaxies showing unusually rapid stellar formations, which astronomers say may change the understanding of the ways in which galaxies form.

Man landing on Mars and returning to the moon could happen sooner than some people may think. On Wednesday, NASA successfully tested a new rocket engine, the J-2X, that puts the organization on track for a new deep space launch in 2017.

Tonight, Venus, Mercury and the red supergiant star Antares will form an almost perfect vertical line on the southwestern horizon. The trio of the two innermost planets in our solar system and orange-hued Antares, the brightest star in the Scorpio constellation, will angle 'up' and slightly to the right approximately 30 minutes after local sunset.

An asteroid is going to be passing very close to Earth this week. What information will astronomers and scientists be able to glean from this rare occasion?

The White House has issued a declaration in response to a petition signed by more than 5000 people, stating that the government has no evidence of extraterrestrial life existing outside earth.

On Tuesday night, astronomers and sky-watchers may get a rare glimpse of an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier. The behemoth is expected to fly by at a distance closer than that between the Earth and the moon.

In a response to an online petition, the White House shot down the popular notion that the U.S. government is covering up the existence of extraterrestrial life.

A group of scientists working with NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a very powerful, fast rotating star that is far younger than others of its type previously discovered.

U.S. residents convinced that the government continues to hide evidence of extraterrestrial life got an official response: No aliens here.

NASA recently posted a few photographs taken with the help of high-powered telescopes aboard spacecraft circling the Earth. Check out the images below.