Richard Garriott, son of a former NASA astronaut, is ready to make his own space trek.

Neptune is much too faint to be perceived without any optical aid.

Johannes Kepler, the son of a mercenary soldier and an innkeeper's daughter, was born prematurely just 2 days after Christmas 1571, in Weil der Stadt in Wurttemburg (now part of...

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2008 - The 2008 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication celebrates the agency's 50th anniversary and highlights 50 new examples of how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life. This anniversary edition features a 50-year timeline of NASA-derived technologies from historical programs and projects, and a summary of award-winning NASA technologies included in Spinoff over the years.

SPACE.com - Former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott is proud of his son Richard and with good reason. After all, it's not every day a child follows his father's footsteps all the way to space.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 14, to brief reporters about the status of efforts to revive the data handling unit that failed on the Hubble Space Telescope in late-September.

(Arizona State University) NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is heading for a new orbit around the Red Planet, and the change will give ASU's Thermal Emission Imaging System, a multi-band heat-sensing camera, greater sensitivity for mapping Martian minerals.

Last month when scientists switched on the Large Hadron Collider, the world did not come to an end. In today's story, a particle physicist explains why not--and why Earth is safe from black holes when the collider is reactivated in the months ahead.

A US space tourist due to travel to space on a Russian spaceship has said that he is unfazed by the prospect of a bumpy ride back to Earth.

AFP - US space agency NASA said Friday it still plans to launch an ambitious mission to Mars late next year despite technical hurdles and budget difficulties.