SPACE

NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.

NASA has unveiled the new design plan of an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

NASA is working on a 320-feet multi-billion-dollar Space Launch System (SLS), which is also the world's largest rocket, aiming to explore nearby asteroid around 2025 and then on to Mars in the 2030s.

The future of the James Webb Space Telescope project was almost in peril until Wednesday when the U.S. Senate proposed to revive the $6.5 billion instrument.

In a joint press release, two U.S. Senators accused the Obama administration of inflating the projected costs for NASA's Space Launch System in an attempt to kill development of the program.

More than 50 new alien planets- - including one super-Earth that could potentially support life -- have been found in the largest extrasolar planet haul announced at one time, astronomers say.

NASA unveils the next generation launch system rockets, which will be designed to send astronauts into deep space.

A star is bombarding a huge nearby planet with X-rays 100,000 times stronger than what Earth receives from the Sun, a new study found.

Bond was denied for a Chicago area high school student, John Granat who was charged with murdering his parents, said Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart.

European astronomers have announced that they have discovered a second planet outside the solar system that could potentially support terrestrial life.

Scientists have inferred the existence of an “invisible” planet, from the influence it’s exerting on another planet.

Astronomers have observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby cool brown dwarf that may indicate a massive storm ever seen on a planet.

The Russian Space Agency on Tuesday announced that it is postponing the launch of the latest space station crew to Nov. 12. This gives NASA reasons to worry, since the situation is such that NASA itself has no space shuttles to take the astronauts to the International Space Station, and it relies completely on Russia for the same.

Scientists have found that a star is brutally bombarding a planet close by with a barrage of X-rays that are almost hundred thousand times stronger than what our planet receives from the sun.

NASA has released new data from its orbiting Fermi Gamma-Ray Large Area Telescope showing 1,873 objects shining with the highest-energy form of light.

NASA's Chandra X-ray discovered a planet about 880 light-years away from Earth is being blasted away by a companion star.

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is delaying the launch of the next manned Soyuz mission until Nov. 12 because of a recent accident involving a supply ship.

A defunct satellite poised to fall back to Earth will make its final plunge during the last week of September, NASA officials say.

NASA's space shuttle program may have retired but a new recycling program is underway as the space agency has started selling space food and tiles to schools and universities.

The odds of a planet other than Earth being able to support life are vanishingly small, but astronomers believe a super earth just outside our solar system may be hospitable to life.

The European astronomers have discovered 50 alien planets outside our solar system, they said in an announcement on Monday.