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Astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis captured an amazing view of green Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights on Thursday, while they passed west of Australia.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbits the asteroid vesta after a four year journey of getting there.

Space shuttle crew members have completed a maintenance job aboard Atlantis, NASA has said.

Beyonce Sends Surprise Wakeup Call to shuttle astronauts, listen to the song here.

President Barack Obama spoke with 10 astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station in a phone conversation Friday, offering his gratitude to those who have helped fly 135 shuttle missions in the past 30 years, USA Today reported.

NASA Dawn spacecraft will approach asteroid Vesta for a prolonged orbit. Engineers expect Dawn to be captured by Vesta's gravity and into a prolonged orbit at approximately 10 p.m. PDT Friday, reported NASA.

Steve Lindsey, NASA astronaut announced on Thursday, that he will leave the agency on Friday July 15, to pursue a career within the aerospace industry.

International Space Station had the messy task of repairing its clogged toilets on Wednesday.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is set to begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta on Friday, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid.

Scientists believe the images and information collected about Vesta will illuminate what happened in the early days of the universe.

Scientists believe the images and information collected about Vesta will illuminate what happened in the early days of the universe

The 135th and final flight in NASA's shuttle program, Atlantis has begun its final 12-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) since July 8. Once the space shuttle comes back from space, the 30-year shuttle era will be over.

The 135th and final flight in NASA's shuttle program, Atlantis has begun its final 12-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) since July 8. Once the space shuttle comes back from space, the 30-year shuttle era will be over.

The Atlantis crew is halfway through the 13-day mission, the last in NASA's space shuttle program. The crew plans to host a virtual dinner on Thursday, July 14.

NASA's Dawn probe is about to go into orbit around the Vesta asteroid, the second largest in an asteroid belt lying between Mars and Jupiter, in the culmination of a nearly four year journey.

R.E.M.’s front man Michael Stipe delivered a snippet of the band’s ‘Man on the Moon’ for the crew of Space Shuttle ‘Atlantis’ on Thursday morning to mark the closure of the space shuttle program.

A mysterious long X-ray tail spanning more than 4 light years across may be stretching away from a spinning neutron star, or pulsar, according to astronomers who discovered the event using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

NASA recently released these dramatic photos of space shuttle Atlantis on her final mission.

Neptune, the eight planet of the solar system completed its first orbit around the sun on Tuesday, 165 years after its discovery. Commemorating the event, NASA has released the latest pictures of Neptune captured by Hubble telescope.

For the last time, the US Space Shuttle has approached the International Space Station.

Astronauts embarked on the final space walk of the US shuttle era at the International Space Station, where Atlantis is docked on the final mission of the 30-year US program.