India's Parliament has increased the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) budget for 2010 by about 38 percent over last year.

SpaceX successfully test fired the first stage engines of its new Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, bringing booster closer to its launch debut.

MRO has generated more than 100 terabits of data, here's what that number means.

A secretive military spacecraft called X-37B is in Florida to prepare for launch on April 19.

The European Paranal Observatory in Chile offers stunning views of the night sky high up in the Atacama Desert.

A newfound comet is heading for a brush with the sun, one which it will likely not survive.

The giant conveyor belt of plasma in the sun is mysteriously running at record speed.

ZERO-G is offering researchers a chance to fly in a plane that simulates weightless and low-gravity environments like the moon, Mars, and Earth-orbit.

Killer electrons generated in Earth's magnetic shield when solar storms hit.

Anticipation is growing for new commercial suborbital spaceships that can serve the scientific and educational market.

Evidence from two Mars orbiters indicates that flowing lava carved some of the channels seen on the surface of the planet.

The International Space Station could continue to fly through 2028, eight years longer than current plans, the countries backing the outpost have said.

Genuine lunar water has been discovered in Apollo moon rocks, a finding that suggests the wet stuff originally came from comets.

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Tuesday for the world premiere of the Hubble 3D IMAX film.

NASA has begun vital repairs on its giant Mars Antenna at the Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif.

Florida lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation to extend the shuttle beyond its scheduled retirement

A newly released photo from a German satellite has revealed the International Space Station (ISS) as an eerie apparition glowing in X-rays.

NASA's Herschel telescope finds signatures of life-enabling molecules in Orion nebula.

Is our Sun part of a binary star system? Some have suggested an unseen companion star, nicknamed "Nemesis," is sending comets towards Earth.

China has selected two female pilots as its first women astronauts, but they had to pass the marriage test first.