NASA monitors space junk ahead of spacewalk

A large piece of space debris drifted toward the International Space Station Thursday, but NASA said…

Search for life elsewhere expands

A powerful orbital telescope launched in March with a mission to look for habitable counterparts to…

Circus billionaire plans live show from space

Adding a wondrous twist to the halting issues of climate change and water conservation, Guy Laliberté…

Spacewalking astronauts briefly lose ground link

Spacewalking astronauts outside the International Space Station lost touch with ground controllers for 33 minutes on…

Astronomers discover galactic cannibal

A Canadian-led team has uncovered cannibalism on a galactic scale.

Extending space station key to Mars: NASA scientist

Getting humans to Mars will require medical research on the International Space Station through at least…

Astronauts prepare for first spacewalk

The U.S. space shuttle Discovery's crew awoke Tuesday to begin unloading tons of equipment to the…

Discovery docks with space station

The U.S. shuttle Discovery made a textbook docking Sunday with the International Space Station where a…

Contact lost, India terminates first moon mission

India terminated its first mission to the moon on Sunday, a spokesman for the national space…

NASA readying shuttle Discovery for Friday launch

NASA will wait until late Friday to make its fourth attempt to launch the space shuttle…