By the end of this week, China may have already finished its first manned space docking and successfully sent its first woman into space.
Sounding more climate change alarms, NOAA reports the U.S. just emerged from the warmest spring recorded.
Scientists describe finding an unprecedented phytoplankton bloom in the Arctic -- akin to stumbling across a rainforest in the middle of the Sahara.
Thanks to a NASA-sponsored expedition to the Arctic Ocean in the summers of 2010 and 2011, scientists have found an area underneath sea ice, which is richer in microscopic marine plants, essential to all sea life, than any other ocean region on the Earth.
On the heels of the beloved science fiction author's passing this week, his collection of stories takes a ride on the Mars Lander and finds a home on the Red Planet.
NASA scientists investigating the Arctic Ocean have discovered blooms of microscopic plantlike organisms thriving beneath the barren tundra, which was previously hidden from scientists and the rest of the world.
Space shuttle Enterprise took its final journey Wednesday to its retirement home on a floating museum off the western edge of New York City and you can check it out in person in just over a month's time.
For the very last time this century, skywatchers and astronomers around the world got the opportunity to witness the rare astronomical reunion of the Sun, Venus and Earth Tuesday. Venus, the second brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon, made a rare pass in front of the Sun, making its presence in the solar system visible from Earth's day side.
It will be your last change to catch a glimpse of one of the rarest cosmic spectacles -- the slow movement of the planet Venus across the face of the sun.
The transit of Venus, which occurs when the planet's orbit brings it between Earth and the sun, takes place roughly twice a century.
Dutch company Mars One has been making the rounds with its dreams of putting on a reality TV show to select astronauts for a one-way journey to the Red Planet. But the company is vague on how people will be transported to and live on Mars.
Since Venus will only be covering up between 2 percent and 3 percent of the solar disc, watching the event with your naked eye will basically be like staring directly into the sun.
By aiming their instruments at the transit of Venus, astronomers can see if they are able to detect clues about Venus' atmosphere using methods that could be applied to observations of far-flung worlds.
The rare Transit of Venus will come to the United States Tuesday, as the second planet in the solar system will pass in front of the sun as it sets. The event occurs only once every century, so it's best to prepare ahead of time. Here's how.
American military machines are endangered by phony components from China. No one has been hurt yet as a result, but solving the problem will be a herculean task.
Four billion years from now, the Milky Way galaxy won't remain the same as we know it today. A major cosmic event is on its way, which will bring an unprecedented makeover to the home of our solar system.
The rise of private space companies and foreign space programs, combined with an interest in lunar mining, is likely to bring the issue of extraterrestrial property rights into focus in the next few decades.
Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon cargo ship started heading back to Earth from International Space Station on Thursday after the first test flight.
The crew members aboard the International Space Station opened the hatch and floated inside the Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon capsule, the first privately owned spaceship to reach the orbital outpost, according to Nasa
Private-sector initiatives in space made history Friday when SpaceX?s Dragon space capsule was grappled by and attached to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has become the first non-governmental agency to fly to the International Space Station and dock with orbiting laboratory.
Marking the beginning of the second demonstration mission for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 3:44 a.m. EDT.
