China has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft, a small step into achieving their larger space exploration goals.
Chicago-based Boeing Co. has reached an agreement to lease a mothballed space shuttle hanger at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida.
Pluto is once again considered the ninth biggest object orbiting the Sun.
Pacman Nebula has grown some new fangs; just in time for Halloween. NASA recorded a photograph of the Pacman Nebula, a star-forming cloud, munching its way through the cosmos. NASA reported on Oct. 26 that, when viewed through infrared light by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, the cloud can be seen with a decidedly more ghoulish appearance.
An uncommon, all-red aurora borealis or Northern Light appeared over the skies of the city of Independence in Missouri at 2 p.m. ET Oct. 24.
Comet Elenin, which in August further aggravated Internet hoax following Harold Camping's May 21 Doomsday prophecies early this year, is no more, NASA said Tuesday.
The 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) ended ahead of schedule due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina.
Coming off the heals of their unmanned space last month, China will send into orbit another space craft that has the United States worrying.
China said on Wednesday it will launch within weeks its first spacecraft capable of docking with a module it put into orbit last month, in what will mark a crucial test of its growing space programme.
A 2,000-year old mystery that has puzzled astronomers and researchers has finally been solved, with the help of infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
NASA continued to roll out apps for astronomy enthusiasts to view pictures of far off worlds, get updates on missions and receive updates on the International Space Station.
ThinkGeek has unveiled a new, incredibly geeky addition to the Siri app on Apple's iPhone 4S: a docking bay and speaker system called the IRIS 9000, equipped to look exactly like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Learn what IRIS 9000 can do and watch ThinkGeek's promo video for the eerie iPhone companion, running for $59.99 and already sold out at thinkgeek.com.
TW Hydrae, in the constellation Hydra, is an orange dwarf star and is smaller than our sun.
2,000-year-old mystery of a huge supernova solved by two NASA telescopes.
Chinese astronomers looked up in the sky back in 185 A.D. and found a mysterious guest star that stayed around for eight months then disappeared. The sighting was the first documented supernova confirmed by scientists in the 1960s.
NASA's Spitzer has identified signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. This downpour is said to resemble own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, which may have brought water and other life-forming ingredients to the Earth.
NASA says it has solved the mystery of the identity of first recorded supernova, which was observed on Earth 1,826 years ago. The discovery was made by the Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, said NASA on Monday.
NASA agents confront a 74-year-old woman at a Denny's to recover moon artifact.
New discovery confirms research on planet formation, the National Science Foundation says.
Cold water vapor found near star 175 light years from Earth.
The enormous German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is expected to strike Earth on Saturday, anywhere inside an area that stretches from North America to South America and their adjacent waters.
For the first time, researchers and astronomers at the Herschel Space Observatory have observed cold water vapor enveloping a dusty disk around a young star.
