With budget cuts looming, it looked like the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence project was going to have to shut down. But thanks the generosity of fans across the world, the project has raised $200,000 to keep scanning the universe for signs of intelligent life.

Opportunity, the last surviving Mars rover, is approaching the rim of a vast crater to begin a fresh round of exploration. Driving commands sent up to Opportunity directed the six-wheel rover to make the final push toward Endeavour crater, a 14-mile (22-kilometer)-wide depression near the Martian equator that likely could be its final destination. At [...]

The Hubble space telescope has found a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet of Pluto, NASA announced last week. The space telescope was searching for rings around the planetary oddball at the edge of our solar system when it came across P4, the temporary name for the newly discovered moon. With an estimated diameter [...]

The next Mars rover, named Curiosity, will explore the Gale Crater when it touches down on the red planet next year.

The Gale Crater is thought by scientists to be the best possible place on Mars to have evidence of life.

The end of an era was reached this morning as the space shuttle Atlantis touched down on planet Earth again.  Its return brought an end not only to its mission but also the end of use of the space shuttle. "Atlantis is home," said NASA control moments after its arrival at 5:56 a.m. ET. "Its [...]