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A technical hitch has delayed New Zealand's bid to join the space race. The launch by New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab of Atea-1 from Great Mercury Island, off the Coromandel Peninsula, was scheduled for 7.10am but put on hold due to a fuel problem.

NASAs Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is all set to start its hunt for stealth asteroids.

The Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee has now delivered its final report.

Briefly, for those that don't know, Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a show about a ordinary Joe, or Joel, and his two wise-cracking robots.

Forget Monsters Inc and The Incredibles, there's a new animation set to take cinemas by storm this Christmas - Planet 51.

Petal High School has been selected by NASA to participate in a project to design and build products for use in an Ares mock-up - part of the future space exploration.

For the first time, a butterfly has formed a chrysalis on the International Space Station.

NASA says a piece of old space junk that it's been tracking for a few days is no threat to the International Space Station.

Far out: The amazing images from the Space Shuttle's seven-day stint at the International Space Station By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:25 AM on 26th November 2009 Tomorrow the Space Shuttle Atlantis is due to touch down on Earth after a successful seven-day mission to deliver vital equipment to the International Space Station.

European space agencies and an aerospace giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot plasma formed during re-entry of returning spacecraft.

Students in two Knox County classrooms are helping NASA researchers by keeping a close eye on some Monarch caterpillars.

Bristol has a proud history of producing adventurers - ever since John Cabot set sail on The Matthew with his Bristolian crew to discover Newfoundland.

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a compact object -- either a neutron star or a black hole -- that blasts twin radio-emitting jets of matter into space at more than half the speed of ...

Favourable weather conditions awaited the shuttle Atlantis and its seven-astronaut crew on their expected return to Earth on Friday, after a successful 11-day mission to the International Space Station.

China is set to launch its second lunar probe next October in preparation for an unmanned moon landing by the end of 2012, space program officials said Friday.

Former astronaut Fred Haise Jr. will receive NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award during a ceremony Dec.

Troops belonging to the Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry Squadron stand in line at the mess hall to get their Thanksgiving dinner at the Joint Combat Operations Post in the town of Baraki-Barak district, Logar province, Afghanistan Thursday Nov.

Students at a northern Virginia school have made a trip to space - at least by name, that is.

A top Russian space official says there is no space for tourists wishing to fly to the International Space Station.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew are expected to return to Earth on Friday, Nov.