Russia successfully launches manned spacecraft to ISS
Russia's spacecraft Soyuz TMA-04M with a crew of three blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, according to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos.
NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest

Technicians prep the OCO-2 instrument for shipping at JPL. The instrument consists of three parallel, high-...
NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid

Mineral Diversity at Vesta's South Pole
This image, made from data obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the...
Anti-malaria garment designed to drive away mosquitoes
A collaboration between a scientist and a designer from Africa has resulted in the creation of a fashionable hooded bodysuit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria.
Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making

This artistically modified image of the local galaxy Arp 220, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helps...
NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth'

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to detect a super Earth's direct light for the first time using its sensitive...
NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Earthquakes
The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and magnitude of strong earthquakes across the western United States....
NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust

It's a dust bunny of cosmic proportions. Astronomers used images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or...