The US space agency (Nasa) has released the sharpest ever elevation map of the Moon. It will enable scientists to accurately portray the shape of the entire Moon at a higher resolution than... Read more
NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite soared into space, aboard a Delta II rocket, after lift-off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA’s... Read more
NASA plans to spend $1.6 billion over the next two years bolstering industry efforts to develop space taxis, officials said on Monday. The U.S. space agency will be looking for complete syst... Read more
An unmanned U.S. rocket blasted off on Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to deliver twin robotic probes to the moon in the hope of learning what is inside. The 124-fo... Read more
Nasa has admitted it is “concerned” about a dead £471m satellite that will soon fall to Earth – but insisted there is little chance it will hit anyone. The UARS was launche... Read more
NASA moved on to a new chapter in space exploration on Friday, a day after the end of its shuttle program, by announcing details of plans to determine if Mars has or ever had the ingredients... Read more
After getting a little free time, the last space shuttle crew was woken up to deal with a second computer failure on Atlantis. The astronauts switched to another of the shuttle’s five... Read more
Atlantis has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on the final mission of the US space shuttle programme. It will spend at least seven days at the ISS and, on its return to Eart... Read more
The Voyagers are approaching the edge of the enormous sphere of charged particles the Sun has thrown out into space Humankind’s most distant emissaries are flying through a turb... Read more
Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center for the final time Space shuttle Endeavour has brought its 19-year operational career to a close with a textbook landing in Florida. The vehicl... Read more
