Space shuttle Endeavour has to wait another day to make its cross-country return trip to Florida. ...more

December 8, 2008

NASA has set a May date for its space shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope for a final time. ...more

December 4, 2008

Dangerously high wind and a stormy sky prevented space shuttle Endeavour from returning to its home base in Florida on Sunday, and NASA ordered the astronauts to take a detour and land in sunny California. ...more

November 30, 2008

Re: John Herbert's column, "NASA Pork Just More Space Junk," in the Nov. 16 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

November 22, 2008

A tool bag that floated away from a spacewalking astronaut this week was one of the largest items ever lost in space, and NASA guessed it cost about $100,000. ...more

November 20, 2008

NASA grew more optimistic of launching space shuttle Endeavour tonight on a space station delivery mission as forecasters offered a more promising outlook for the nighttime liftoff. ...more

November 14, 2008

None of the four giant gaseous planets are remotely habitable or remotely like Earth. But they raise the possibility of others more hospitable. ...more

November 14, 2008

NASA'S MESSENGER PROBE FLEW by the planet Mercury for the second time this year early Monday morning. It maneuvered as close as 125 miles above the planet and took hundreds of pictures, according to NASA's Web site. The probe also collected various other data during this pass. Messenger is the first mission sent to orbit Mercury, and should do so in March 2011, NASA said. ...more

October 8, 2008

NASA's Messenger probe flew by the planet Mercury for the second time this year early Monday morning. ...more

October 7, 2008

"Ms. Hempel Chronicles," by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum (Harcourt, $23) ...more

October 5, 2008