Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, NASA no longer has the ability to fly astronauts in space, a decision Glenn lays squarely on the

The United States has threatened action that could disrupt a French-led satellite maker’s supply chain, spurred by suspicion that it illegally used U.S. know-how or parts in spacecraft launched by

Despite a spate of Russian space accidents last year, NASA remains confident in its partner’s ability to fly crew and cargo to the International Space Station, the program manager said

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said

Aircraft-style black boxes could be installed in new drivers’ cars to help cut insurance premiums and reduce accidents in Northern Ireland, the DoE has claimed. DoE minister Alex Attwood is

Virgin America has named one of its airplanes “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” in honor of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, reports MacRumors. Jobs saw the phrase in the Whole Earth Catalog

With space shuttle Atlantis’ 25-year spaceflight career now in the history books, its next mission — to inform and inspire generations of visitors to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

The United States will join with Europe and other nations to hammer out a code of conduct for space activities, including how to deal with the growing problem of debris

Pieces of a failed Russian Mars probe plummeted into the Pacific Ocean far off the Chilean coast Sunday, Russian news agencies cited a military official as saying. Debris from the

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has unveiled plans for a £659 million (US$1 billion) airport city at Manchester Airport – the first of its kind in the UK. The

While long anticipated in both science and science fiction, the existence of a circumbinary planet — a planet orbiting two stars — like “Tatooine” portrayed in the film Star Wars

Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets, according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three planets located outside our solar system, called