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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.

NASA has invited the public to share a virtual dinner with the final shuttle space crew on July 14 on Thursday.

Continuing its AntiSec activities against corporate and government targets, hacking collective Anonymous broke into a server operated by a military contractor on Monday, disclosing log-in credentials including 90,000 military e-mail addresses and passwords.

Chances are you've enjoyed a refreshing Gatorade or Powerade at some point in your life, perhaps after working out or playing sports. But would you be quite as eager to drink that energy drink if you knew it got its origins from urine?

Noctilucent Clouds were first observed in 19th century but their appearance has increased over time and are seasonal, appearing most often in late spring and summer every year.

The iPhone is making its first flight on the space shuttle, but its being joined by its long-time rival the Android, from Google.

The followers of the New Age faith believe that mountainous village of Bugarach would be spared in the 2012 apocalypse.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is carrying two iPhone 4s to the ISS (International Space Station) for experimentation.

The prediction that the world would end in December 2012 has set in motion French government agency Miviludes into top gear monitoring sect movements and suicide attempts at the village of Bugarach, which is believed to be the escape route to doomsday events.

NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis has begun its final mission with a 12-day mission to the International Space Station since 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 8. It is the 135th and final flight in NASA's shuttle program. Once the space shuttle comes back from space, the shuttle era will be over.

With Friday's lift-off of the Atlantis being the final shuttle launch for NASA, science is expected to turn to the private sector to get into space. But for some computing needs, NASA has turned to the private sector already, using smartphones to run some experiments.

Hole punch clouds make a rare, wonderful spectacle in the sky for everyone to observe. What a beautiful gift of the nature - which could also send rain or snow to the earth.

NASA is going to the private sector for the next era of manned space missions.