India launched its first mission to the moon Wednesday, rocketing a satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar surface. ...more

October 21, 2008

At least one of many large, lakelike features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday. ...more

August 1, 2008

China plans to conduct its first spacewalk in October. The European Space Agency is building a roving robot to land on Mars. India recently launched a record 10 satellites into space on a single rocket. ...more

July 13, 2008

CAPE CANAVERAL - Japan is about to roll out the Lexus of space station labs, a whopper in size and sophistication. ...more

May 26, 2008

Capping a successful 13-day mission to the International Space Station, the crew of Atlantis glided home to a postcard touchdown at 9:07 a.m. Wednesday, setting the stage for another shuttle venture in less than three weeks. ...more

February 21, 2008

Shuttle Atlantis' sick German astronaut looked and sounded well Sunday as he helped a crewmate prepare for a spacewalk that should have been his. ...more

February 11, 2008

Mother Nature must be a fan of the U.S. space program, judging from her benevolence in pushing aside bad weather long enough for seven astronauts to roar into orbit. ...more

February 7, 2008

CAPE CANAVERAL – Mother Nature must be a fan of the U.S. space program, judging from her benevolence in pushing aside bad weather long enough for seven astronauts to roar into orbit. ...more

February 7, 2008

Neither wind nor rain nor hail stops the U.S. Postal Service, but they do frustrate the people trying to launch space shuttles. ...more

February 7, 2008

A weather front moving through Florida could put the brakes on Thursday's planned 2:47 p.m. liftoff of Atlantis, when storm clouds are expected to linger around Kennedy Space Center. ...more

February 6, 2008