space

At 7:05 a.m. Thursday, the unmanned Orion test vehicle is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket to…

The new vehicle, named Orion, is designed to carry humans into deep space. But most Americans aren't aware it exists.

NASA 3-D printed an object on the International Space Station for the first time this week. It's an important step toward long missions — like to Mars — where all necessary items won't fit on board.

Millions of miles from Earth, the Philae robotic lander has settled on the comet's surface, the European Space Agency says.

NASA has finished building the crew module of its newest spacecraft- Orion.The spacecraft was moved out of the Kennedy Space Center facility Thursday…

Looking over the state of U.S. science funding these days, it's hard not to get depressed. But the BoldlyGo Institute challenges us to remember that the stakes are too high to give up.

Escalating unrest in the Ukraine is adding urgency to NASA’s decision on the space craft that will replace the shuttle.The space agency is expected to…

So far, so good. ISEE-3, the versatile 1978 space probe that took a detour to greet a comet in the 1980s, is now on track to get close to the moon, scientists say, though course fixes can be tricky.

The two sides will continue to work together, however, in the operation of the International Space Station.

A mysterious dark spot in downtown Tokyo. A flock of dancing dots in the Pacific. A town that's half orange, half green. Astronaut puzzlers seen from space.

Two of the four gyroscope-like wheels that keep the planet-hunting probe pointed in the right direction aren't working. NASA is exploring whether there might be other research projects Kepler can still carry out.

When the White House unveils its fiscal year 2014 budget next week, prepare to have your mind blown. The financial estimate includes about $100 million…