Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: As Japan gears up to send the first working solar sail into deep space in a couple of months, the Planetary Society is moving ahead with its own solar-sail project. You can put your name on both sails … if you act now. Planetary Society - Solar sail - Orbit - Alan Boyle - Technology

While the planet Venus is now gaining in prominence low in western evening sky and Mars continues to slowly fade as it recedes from Earth, another bright naked eye planet, Saturn, is now enjoying its finest month in 2010. Saturn - Venus - Mars - Earth - Solar System

The big bang was the beginning of the universe as we know it, most scientists say. But was it the first beginning, and will it be the last? Big Bang - Big Bang Theory - Television - Cosmology - Arts

NASA is ready to test the X-37, a new "mini" shuttle, without a crew. WESH's Dan Billow reports. (NBC News Channel) NASA - Space - Space Shuttle - WESH - Technology

The rings of Saturn are the most intricate planetary decorations in our solar system, but are also cosmic gems festooned with unknown red material and some tricky dynamic forces that shape them. Solar System - Rings of Saturn - Saturn - Cassini - Space

The Hubble Space Telescope has long been an icon of astronomy with $10 billion spent over two decades to keep it peering deep into the cosmos.

When Robert White shot through the sky in a rocket-powered X-15 airplane nearly 50 years ago, he earned a place in the development of America's space program that those in the field still talk about.

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One day we may be so lucky to go into space and see the Earth in all its full glory.

The STS-131 crew is at Kennedy Space Center for a practice countdown. The final countdown has begun to the end of manned spaceflights by NASA, leaving some to fret that the nation's dreams of reaching for the stars may be in jeopardy under President Barack Obama's controversial plan to commercialize spaceflight.

EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation , has acquired the rights to use this capacity from SES and now plans to offer full-time and occasional use space segment to authorized entities in Mexico through SSM.

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, also known as "TRMM" passed over powerful tropical cyclone Tomas near the International Dateline in the South Pacific on March 15 at 2123 UTC .

What would happen if you spent millions of dollars placing a special IMAX camera on board a space shuttle and all the footage turned out to be useless because of a simple condensation? It's not science fiction.

The seemingly serene orb of Saturn is in fact a gas giant with extraordinary patterns of charged particles and rough and tumble roller derbies for rings, NASA's Cassini spacecraft found since its arrival at Saturn in 2004.

The U.S. has built a brand new space shuttle, and it's ready to launch next month.

The nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has taken many iconic images of the cosmos and is even the star of a new 3D IMAX movie that gives viewers a chance to fly through those snapshots.

It's a curious beast, there's no doubt about that. The Dnepr rocket that will carry Europe's ice explorer Cryosat into orbit next month is quite unlike most satellite launch systems.

NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA aircraft arrive in Greenland March 22.

Current and former NASA officials reminded a Senate panel Thursday that sending people into space is risky and costly and could be a tough goal for commercial rocket companies to achieve.

This infrared image from NASA's WISE space telescope shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars, including the Berkeley 59 cluster and a supernova remnant.

Charleston, SC - The first graduate of a South Carolina military college to become an astronaut is returning to his alma mater.

Remember those jokes about the Hubble telescope needing a blind man's cane and dark glasses when it went into orbit 20 years ago and immediately proved nearsighted? After eye surgery by NASA astronauts to fix a warped mirror, the Hubble has become an instrument of penetrating vision that has allowed astronomers to peer into the farthest reaches of ...

Agency spokesman Rob Navias said parachutes slowed the craft before it touched down at 5:24 p.m. local time Thursday in Kazakhstan's northern steppes.

This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows three rings of glowing gas encircling the site of Supernova 1987A, a star which exploded in February 1987.

This artist's conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy.