Scientists are sifting through their first new views of the planet Mercury in more than three decades thanks to images beamed home by NASA's MESSENGER probe. The car-sized spacecraft zipped past Mercury in a Monday flyby and is relaying more than 1,200 new images and other data back to eager scientists on Earth. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

The Cassini spacecraft will perform its closest flyby ever of Saturn's ice-spewing moon Enceladus early next year, moving directly into its icy polar geyser for a deep-space shower. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has returned to Earth, but came down more than 400km (250 miles) away from its planned touchdown point, say Russian officials. picked by topofall 6 months ago

As spacecraft began to launch on journeys to more distant planets, never to return, their mission controllers often commanded them to take departing views of Earth and the Moon. Mariner 10 and Voyager 1 both took such snapshots, as did Mars Odyssey, Venus Express, and many others. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

The spacecraft ulysses, currently in the 18th year of its mission has encountered a glitch which may doom it to a frozen death in space. picked by xenity7 8 months ago

The US spacecraft Dawn, due to launch on Sunday, will take a close look at two massive asteroids to try to penetrate the mystery of our solar system's origins 4.6 billion years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The creator of SpaceShipOne, the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space, traveled to New York to show detailed models of the bigger SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, WhiteKnightTwo. picked by willster09 9 months ago

A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world. VIDEO picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

A NASA probe has begun beaming back stunning new images from its successful second flyby of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. NASA's MESSENGER probe captured never-before-seen views of the Mercury during its encounter on Monday. picked by AutumnLotus 5 days ago

NASA investigative panel determined the probable cause of the mysterious disappearance of the Mars Global Surveyor was battery failure. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone – and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

The firm Bigelow Aerospace has launched its second inflatable space module, Genesis 2, taking another step towards its goal of building crewed, inflatable space stations that could be leased to paying customers. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

NASA's Cassini spacecraft observes Saturn's electrical storm with lightning 10,000 more powerful than the lightning on Earth. The area, where the storm occured, was dubbed "Storm Alley." picked by maxriter 5 months ago

Newly reprocessed images of the Moon's far side taken by Soviet spacecraft more than 40 years ago may have confirmed that the Moon's biggest impact scar was glimpsed far earlier than previously thought. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Nasa has developed a methane powered engine to propel spacecraft of the future. It's only a matter of time before we harness the pure energy that is the "cow fart."

Click on the photo to see a pretty cool video of the engine test firing! picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

Derelict rocket stages that propelled four spacecraft toward the edges of our solar system and beyond are likely carrying Earthly bacteria out into the galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft with a gold record containing sounds and images that portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. A look back at those images makes me think we would do it differently today. You can view and hear more of the contents here. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

It is designed to replace the Soyuz vehicle currently in use by Russia and will allow Europe to participate directly in crew transportation. picked by deEPCHIll 3 months ago

Design for Orion--the follow-on spacecraft to the shuttle--is well underway. It will be about 2.5 times the size of Apollo, and carry six people to orbit or four people to the moon, and be powered by solar panels. There'll be much more computing power (Your car's computers probably have Apollo beat), and a fancy glass cockpit for the pilot. picked by Fanatic 2 years ago

The plan includes two big space-based observatories and a series of smaller probes to exhaustively test Einstein's ideas. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago