Mission inside the fault zone
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BBC correspondent David Shukman meets the scientists who are drilling into California's San Andreas fault.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - Mission Control has given Atlantis astronauts the go-ahead to start their descent back to Earth after a fruitful mission at the international space station. "You are go for the de-orbit burn," Tony Antonelli in Houston radioed up to the crew at 4:53 a.m.
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KOROLYOV, Moscow Region, October 24 (Itar-Tass) - The crew of the ninth mission at the International Space Station (ISS) worked superbly in orbit.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press  After a program member's apparent breakdown, the agency reveals it has procedures for problems in space.   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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Geologists describe Sunday&#39;s powerful earthquake in the Indian Ocean as a once-in-a-generation event. The US Geological Survey says the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that triggered the devastating
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At 03:57 CET today, mission controllers at ESOC
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WASHINGTON -- Yesterday's massive tsunami was triggered when a plate of earth given a bulldozer-like push into the ocean floor off western Indonesia's coast broke through layers of rocky resistance and created a rupture hundreds of miles in length, geologists said.
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By Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 7--A system failure caused some glitches on the station, and the shuttle traveled a little too far into space, directors say, but for the most part the Columbia Aeronautic and Space Association mission is going well.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  and ERIN McCLAM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  ORLANDO, Fla.  In July, astronaut Lisa Nowak traveled 5.3 million miles in a single-minded mission to put America's beleaguered space shuttle program back on track.
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NASA knows Columbia sustained damage on liftoff. But engineers' concerns get swept aside by mission control, at the cost of seven lives. Compiled by Tony Long.
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An untethered, autonomous robot rummaging around a geothermal sinkhole may herald the future of deep ocean -- and deep space -- robotics. By Emmet Cole.
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The day after the Genesis space capsule crashes in the Utah desert, NASA technicians comb through the wreckage hoping to salvage something from the $264 million mission. Amit Asaravala reports from Salt Lake City.
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GOLDEN, COLORADO -- Any high hopes of sustaining expeditions on the Moon, Mars or beyond will depend on getting "down and dirty" on those worlds -- in the form of using on-the-spot resources.
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Scientists give details of a Japanese mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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After surviving near fatal dust storms on Mars, NASA&#39;s Opportunity rover is gearing up for its long-awaited trek inside an expansive crater on the red planet&#39;s surface.
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As recovery teams examined the mangled NASA Genesis probe lodged in the floor of Utah&#39;s west desert earlier this month, a crew member spotted a horseshoe in the sand.
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The crash of the Genesis spacecraft is a loss for NASA and for science. Once again, the potential of robotic space exploration is called into question.