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 [...]

It's the end of an era today with the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis.  The launch is the final mission for the space shuttle program. Seven million pounds of thrust from the shuttle's rocket booster carried the vehicle into orbit one last time, at speeds of up to 19,000 miles per hour, for an [...]

The crew of the international space station got a bit of a scare yesterday. The six-member crew was forced to take shelter in a Russian space craft yesterday because of a potential collision with some space junk.

Luckily the space junk didn't impact the station. It passed within 750 feet of the station.

The space shuttle Endeavour took off on its final mission yesterday. And Stefanie Gordon of Hoboken, N.J captured the moment from the window of her commercial flight yesterday. Gordon took three pictures and a short video of the shuttle launch. “It’s awe inspiring. I would never expect to be that close,” Gordon tells MSNBC “I [...]

After weeks of delays and postponements, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off in its final mission this morning. The launch took place at 8:56 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral, Florida according to the Associated Press. The mission commander is Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was back for the [...]

NASA is hoping that Mars rover can phone home to Earth one more time.

It's been a year since NASA lost contact with the Spirit rover, but the agency is trying to re-establish contact again according to the Associated Press.

After months of delay, it looks like the final mission of the space shuttle Discovery could get off the ground this afternoon.

If you live in the United States, you may want to stay up late or get up early tomorrow morning.

Why you ask?

To check out a lunar eclipse.

The long-postponed final mission for the space shuttle Discovery has been postponed again.

This time it was until February of next year.

The delay will give engineers an opporunity determine the root cause of perplexing cracks in the shuttle's 15-story external tank.

The space shuttle Discovery's trip to the International Space Station continues to be delayed.

First it was weather. Now it's cracks in the support beams on the external fuel tanks. NASA inspectors found a fourth crack Monday, further delaying the launch of Discovery.

A Japanese space probe has returned to Earth with some of the first collected sampels of dust from an asteroid, according to Reuters.

In an official statement, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said that electron microscope observations and analysis of the samples confirmed that material contained in one of two compartments of the Hayabusa spacecraft "were identified as rocky particles… most of them were judged to be of extraterrestrial origin, and definitely from Asteroid Itokawa."