The robotic European cargo ship Albert Einstein was opened Tuesday morning (June 18) at the International Space Station, a day late because of concerns that mold may have grown inside the vehicle, NASA officials said. Full story
PARIS (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies is not among the 2,200 companies exhibiting at the Paris Airshow, but its cut-rate Falcon rocket, which has already shaken up the U.S. satellite launch industry, is raising eyebrows in Europe. Full story
NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years. Full story
Did a hunk of the Mir space station land in a Massachusetts man's yard? WHDH's Sarah French went to find out.
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago this Sunday (June 16) launched aboard the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, set a world record by becoming the first woman in space. But her gender wasn't the only contribution that Tereshkova made to the cultural history of space exploration — she was Full story
Three Chinese astronauts are currently visiting China's Tiangong 1 space lab in orbit on the country's fifth manned mission to space. The flight, which has been going smoothly so far, officials say, is a step toward the country's long-term plan to build and operate a larger space station in the futu Full story
A Soyuz capsule carrying three new crew members successfully docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday, welcoming NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and two crewmates from Russia and Italy.
The volcano, which erupted in the Aleutian Islands, began spewing ash on May 13, and the photo was taken five days later. NBC’s Ann Curry reports.
A Twitter app figures out whether you retweet men and women equally; Buzzfeed profiles California Highway Patrol Sergeant Kevin Briggs, who has prevented hundreds of suicidal men and women from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge; and Commander Chris Hadfield of the International Space Station signs
The current commander of the International Space Station, Commander Chris Hadfield, has recorded a David Bowie re-make in space during his five-month shift. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
REFILE - UPDATING BYLINE A view of Earth from the Cupola on the earth-facing side of the International Space Station is seen in this NASA handout photo taken June 12, 2103 and provided June 17, 2013. Visible in the top left foreground is a Russian Soyuz crew capsule. In the lower right corner, a
A policeman stands guard next to a component of the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft which was found in Badain Jaran Desert after the launch, in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region June 12, 2013. The Chinese manned spacecraft blasted off with three astronauts on board on Tuesday on a 15-day m
In this June 9, 2013 photo, the assembly of the Long March 2F rocket and the Shenzhou 10 planned manned spaceflight is seen at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan in northwest China's Gansu Province. China’s astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed
