The International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth orbit The sole way for every American and station partner astronaut to…
As the International Space Station prepares to host its first one-year visit next year, it's worth remembering that NASA didn't…
Just weeks after becoming fully operational, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is facing storage in 2015. The airborne observatory…
NASA is prepared to axe an airborne telescope to keep "higher-priority" programs such as the Saturn Cassini mission going, according…
Astronauts are expected to leave the International Space Station on schedule next week, and training continues on the ground, despite…
This time-lapse color panorama from China’s Chang’e-3 lander shows the Yutu rover at two different positions during its trek over…
Hard to believe the decades fly by so fast. It was 45 years ago today that the crew of Apollo…
Neil Armstrong -- the first man on the moon, who died in 2012 -- will now be the namesake of…
Mars rock rows and Spectacular Mount Sharp Martian landscape scene with rows of striated rocks in the foreground and spectacular…
NASA's NEOWISE mission -- formerly known as just WISE -- has identified the first comet of its new near-Earth object…