U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday launched four identical spacecraft to study how magnetic fields like those around Earth and Sun interact as part of efforts to understand space weather events that could disrupt power grids, communications and navigation systems.
China hopes to put a rover on Mars around 2020, complete a manned space station around 2022 and test a heavy carrier rocket around 2030, a top space scientist revealed Sunday.
As many as half of all stars may be orphans that lie in what had been thought to be dark spaces between galaxies, according to a sounding rocket experiment conducted by U.S. space agency NASA.
An unmanned rocket operated by private U.S. firm Orbital Sciences Corp. exploded Tuesday seconds after its launch, NASA TV showed.
Japan's Hitachi Ltd. has developed technology that can write data onto high heat- and radiation- resistant fused silica glass that is capable of storing data for up to 300 million years, local media reported Monday.
India Wednesday scripted history by becoming the world's first country to reach Mars in its maiden attempt.
U.S. space agency NASA said Wednesday that it has completed a rigorous review of the Space Launch System (SLS), the world's largest rocket under development to take humans beyond Earth orbit and to Mars.
Political tension around Russia and Ukraine would not affect the national space programs, a senior space official said Tuesday.
A pair of U.S. astronauts successfully replaced a failed backup computer on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday during a short spacewalk, U.S. space agency NASA said.
U.S. space agency NASA has suspended all contacts with its Russian counterpart Roscosmos except for ongoing activities aboard the International Space Station (ISS), according to an internal letter published by the U. S. space news website Spaceref on Wednesday, citing U.S.-Russian tensions over Ukraine and Crimea.
A Chinese spaceship plays a key part in Dr. Ryan Stone's thrilling journey back to Earth in the Oscar-winning film "Gravity."
Two Chinese businessmen have already booked tickets for space trip in 2015 since registration began on the Chinese mainland on Dec. 27, the China Daily reported on Monday.
Two Chinese businessmen have already booked tickets for space trip in 2015 since registration began on the Chinese mainland on Dec. 27, the China Daily reported on Monday.
China needs to build a deep space monitoring station abroad because the existing network is not capable of tracking deep space detectors round the clock, a leading scientist said on Monday.
South Korea plans to launch its homegrown space launch vehicles to put a satellite in orbit by 2020, the government said Tuesday.
Europe's space company Astrium announced Wednesday that it has been awarded three new contracts by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the rocket launchers, Ariane 6 and Ariane 5 ME.
Three astronauts who completed China's longest manned space mission returned to Earth safely Wednesday morning, marking another step towards the country's goal of building a permanent manned space station by 2020.