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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily touched the surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble for return ...

NEW DELHI—India’s space organization is examining the technical snag that led to the aborting of the launch Monday ...

LAUREL, Md.—The NASA spacecraft that yielded the first close-up views of Pluto hurtled toward a New Year's Day ...

After about six months of travel, NASA's Mars InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) ...

BERLIN—Europe's Airbus on Nov. 2 delivered the "powerhouse" for NASA's new Orion Spaceship that will take astronauts to ...

Three astronauts, who spent 197 days at the International Space Station, returned to Earth on Oct. 4, as ...

NASA will be sending a spacecraft to one of the solar system’s more unique asteroids.

Hand shakes, high-fives, and hugs amid cheers and applause filled the NASA mission control room as the confirmation ...

Via Twitter on April 27,  SpaceX has announced its plans to send its Dragon spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018.  Planning to send ...

New data gathered from the New Horizons spacecraft suggests that Pluto has a far more abundant reserve of ...

Like any long-distance relationship, our love affair with Mars has had its ups and downs.

By examining tiny wobbles of Saturn’s moon Enceladus—whose cosmic quavers are detectable only in high-resolution images taken by ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that could be Earth’s older and bigger cousin.

To scientists' relief and delight, the Philae spacecraft that landed on a comet last fall has woken up ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the clearest images yet of two of Pluto's moons as it ...

At NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, engineers have been developing an inflatable heat shield that looks a ...

In 1999, US space agency NASA launched the Stardust spaceship with what seemed then to be extraordinary aims. ...