SPACE

Virgin Galactic has confirmed an order from NASA for up to three charter flights on its privately-built spacecraft to provide opportunities for engineers, technologists, and scientific researchers to conduct cutting-edge experiments in suborbital space. One flight is scheduled and two more are optional.

NASA has booked a charter suborbital flight on Virgin Galactic -- the company owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS -- which aims to become the world's first commercial spaceline.

The Very Large Array National Radio Telescope is searching for new name, according to its director, Fred Lo; and the institute is looking to the people for inspiration.

The distribution of dark matter in 25 massive clusters of galaxies is being mapped by NASA scientists using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The opaque and dense fog between galaxies in the early universe could have been cleared by high energy light from massive stars, according to a new study.

Next year, NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour will move from Los Angeles to retire at the California Science Center. At 122 feet, the Endeavour was built 20 years ago and is now the last shuttle to fly a mission into space.

Deputy space shuttle program manager and former flight director Mike Moses is leaving NASA to oversee operations for Virgin Galactic, the commercial spaceflight company owned by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, the company said on Tuesday.

Dawn spacecraft discovers huge mountain on asteroid.

Over two dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs (sometimes described as failed stars), including a lightweight youngster only about six times heavier than Jupiter, residing inside two young star clusters have been discovered by astronomers.

NASA on Tuesday handed over the ownership of retired space shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where it will go on permanent display.

Shortly, the city of Los Angeles will witness 180,000 pounds of metal driving through its streets. It's the NASA space shuttle Endeavour, which will be taken to its new home.

A seven-seat space taxi backed by NASA to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station will make a high-altitude test flight next summer, officials said on Tuesday.

NASA handed over ownership of the defunct Endeavour spacecraft to the California Science Center in Los Angeles during a ceremony Tuesday.

The planet Uranus is tilted because it may have sustained more than one hit, scientists say.

Google, NASA, and countless international space agencies just launched what they are calling the YouTube Space Lab. The idea is to hold a video contest allowing students to submit experiment ideas they will consider performing on the International Space Station (ISS).

Space-obsessed teenagers have got an opportunity to come up with ideas for science contest to be carried out in space. If successful, the two selected experiments will be performed aboard the International Space Station and live streamed on YouTube to the world in 2012.

YouTube announced on Monday plans to launch YouTube Space Lab, a challenge for students worldwide to create an experiment which will be conducted in space and the chance to receive out of this world space-oriented grand prizes.

Slideshow of NASA-themed corn mazes, which honor 50 years of human space flight.

After weeks of speculation of its intensity as predicted the Draconid meteor shower happened on Saturday, lasting for several hours and splashing the darkening sky with trails of light.

The discovery that the Crab Pulsar is emitting the highest-energy gamma rays ever detected has prompted researchers to consider new theories about gamma-ray production and probe deeper into the mystery surrounding cosmic ray.

There was an amazing outburst of Draconid meteors on Saturday, as observers reporting to the International Meteor Organization showed that the shower didn't disappoint and performed as expect.