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China successfully sent a telecommunication satellite, "ChinaSat 2A," into orbit on Saturday evening, using a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

These startling images may prove that a fruit drink developed by Nasa to protect astronauts from radiation can rejuvenate the skin.

Now that a privately-built capsule has completed its historic hook-up with the International Space Station, investors may want to tread lightly before boldly going where few have gone before.

Soyuz TMA-05M , Soyuz TMA-03M , ATV-3 , Russian Mission Control , ISS , European Space Agency , Akihiko Hoshide , Sunita Williams , Yuri Malenchenko , Don Pettit , Andre Kuipers , Oleg Kononenko Two main engines of European Space Agency's ATV-3 space freighter will be switched on early on Saturday to readjust the orbit of the International Space ... (more)

"Like the smell of a brand-new car" were the words of International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit on Saturday after he carefully opened the hatch and entered the Dragon capsule for his first glimpse inside.

Austin Peay Governors Baseball defeats the Jacksonville State Gamecocks in 11 innings 7-6 to advance in the OVC Baseball Tournament Austin Peay Lady Govs Track and Field's Chantelle Grey starts fast, but fails to advance in NCAA East Region 800 prelims Greenbelt, MD - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ... (more)

Kiyah Munerlyn, 12, a seventh grader at Menifee Valley Middle School, shoots off a Mentos rocket as part of science day at the school on Friday, May 25.

SpaceX successfully docked Friday with the International Space Station.On it, are a dozen high school science experiments.

Scientists have responded in a big way to NASA's call to help reformulate its Mars robotic exploration strategy, submitting about 400 ideas and Red Planet mission concepts to the space agency.

It's May 25, and all hoopy froods know that means it's Towel Day , the annual celebration of all things Douglas Adams.

The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule approached the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday after sailing through a practice rendezvous the day before.

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Space Camp on June 15.

SpaceX was the first private company to deliver a payload to the crew of the International Space Station and a local man's ashes made it aboard for the ride.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon 43 years ago, has tried to live a private life since Apollo 11 came back to Earth, but he did agree to give a rare interview -- to the head of an Australian accounting group.

Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars.

The ashes of late actor James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the original "Star Trek" television series and a series of subsequent films, were on the SpaceX rocket that launched a private spacecraft into orbit this week.

Peer inside an antique radio and you'll find what look like small light bulbs. They're actually vacuum tubes - the predecessors of the silicon transistor.

Filmmakers have tackled space travel from the first days of film - which is to say, before there was space travel.

In this Tuesday, May 22, 2012 file photo, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday but did not stop, completing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.