NASA and JAXA have decided to extend the operations of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) until the end of…
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft took this picture of the Earth and Moon from a distance of 70 million…
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, to begin its mission to become the first spacecraft…
NASA has picked 9 ideas out of 26 proposals for further study as part of its Astronomical Search for Origins…
NASA's Swift satellite is due to arrive at Florida's Cape Canaveral today, to prepare for its launch in October. Named…
The second of the Double Star science satellites was successfully launched on board a Chinese-built Long March 2C rocket on…
NASA has shortened its list of potential missions for its New Frontiers program down to two spacecraft. The first is…
The European Space Agency is working an ambitious new space observatory that will be capable of precisely mapping a billion…
Designed to test two of Einstein's predictions about the nature of gravity and relativity, NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft is…
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft snapped this self portrait recently as part of a series of tests of the…