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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft appears to be hobbled by a faulty wheel and may be near the end of its four-year mission, space agency scientists said More »

Scientists at NASA are right now working on the first practical field test toward proving the possibility of warp drive. More »

Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield on Tuesday returned to Earth along with two other astronauts after a half-year mission to the International Space Station that saw More »

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station has landed safely on the steppes of More »

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has marked his upcoming departure from the International Space Station by singing a cover version of David Bowie's classic song More »

An astronaut has said goodbye to life on the International Space Station by making a cover version of David Bowie's Space Oddity. More »

British billionaire Richard Branson said Monday that rocket-powered space tourism flights by his firm Virgin Galactic would have only a minor impact on climate More »

More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 on current trends of carbon emissions, More »

Astronauts made a rare, hastily planned spacewalk to fix a serious ammonia leak at the International Space Station, and the US space agency said it appeared the More »

NASA astronauts performed an emergency spacewalk Saturday to halt an ammonia leak on the International Space Station but it will take weeks or months to determine More »

Two astronauts will make a hastily-planned spacewalk to try to fix an ammonia leak in the International Space Station's power system. More »

Two astronauts will do a spacewalk on Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system at the International Space Station (ISS). More »

Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse as the moon glided between Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a More »

The International Space Station suffered a small leak of ammonia used to cool its power system, but there was no danger to the crew, NASA said. More »

Buzz Aldrin, the American astronaut who was the second man to walk on the Moon, said Wednesday that the United States must lead the way toward building a permanent More »

Landing astronauts safely on Mars is one of the biggest technological hurdles for any future manned mission to the Red Planet, even more complicated than last More »

About 78,000 people have applied to become Red Planet colonists with the nonprofit organization Mars One since its application process opened on April 22. More »

A satellite that will map the world's forests has been chosen for the seventh mission in Europe's Earth Explorer project, the European Space Agency (ESA) said More »

Europe's lightweight rocket, Vega, was launched from Kourou space base in French Guiana late Monday for the first mission, webcast live, since its maiden flight in More »

Setting foot on Mars by the 2030s is human destiny and a US priority, and every dollar available must be spent on bridging gaps in knowledge on how to get there, More »

NASA and private sector experts now agree that a man or woman could be sent on a mission to Mars over the next 20 years, despite huge challenges. More »

The launch Saturday of Europe's lightweight rocket, Vega, from Kourou in French Guiana was put off until an unspecified date because of poor weather conditions at More »

NASA said it will pay $424 million more to Russia for giving US astronauts a lift to the International Space Station. More »

Renowned physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has reiterated his desire to go into space. More »

A spaceship backed by Sir Richard Branson has made its first powered flight in a test that moves Virgin Galactic toward its goal of flying into space later this More »

Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane, which is designed to take tourists to the edge of space, flew its first rocket-powered test flight, breaking the sound More »

Europe's deep-space Herschel telescope has given up the ghost -- running out of coolant after a successful mission to observe the birth of stars and galaxies, the More »

Russian astronauts will take an unlit Olympic torch on a space walk ahead of the country's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the deputy head of the More »