The spacecraft Dawn will study the asteroid named Vesta, for a year before departing for a second de...

A Delta 4 rocket has rumbled into the early morning sky from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canave...

The space agency was troubleshooting one of five primary computers on board the space shuttle on Fri...

The team of scientists has discovered planets outside our solar system -- exoplanets -- when they 't...

After a hectic week in orbit, the astronauts on NASA's last space shuttle flight got some time off t...

The private space firm has broken the ground on a new launch complex at the Vandenberg Air Force Bas...

Ahead of the planned launch of an unmanned space module, China has placed in orbit its second data r...

Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Mike Fossum and Ron Garan successfully accomplished their primary obj...

Atlantis' is now flying 13-day mission to the International Space Station and will aim to return to ...