Amid word of yet another Russian space failure -- the fifth this year -- a Russian Soyuz ferry craft glided to a problem-free docking with the International Space Station Friday, boosting the lab's crew back to six. Read More...

In bitterly cold weather, a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a three-man all-veteran crew blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday and set off after the International Space Station. Read More...

A Soyuz spacecraft is poised for launch Wednesday to ferry three fresh crew members to the International Space Station, boosting the lab's staff back to six. Read More...

NASA's Kepler space telescope has found the first confirmed Earth-size planets orbiting another star, a major milestone in an ongoing project aimed at finding out how commonplace -- or rare -- Earth-like worlds may be. Read More...

A costly Russian Mars probe, stranded in low-Earth orbit after a malfunction following launch Nov. 8, is expected to fall back into Earth's atmosphere next month, Russian officials confirmed Friday. Read More...

Faced with uncertain budgets, NASA is giving up fixed-price contracts and moving back to more flexible, but less comprehensive, Space Act Agreements to continue design work on a new commercial manned spacecraft. Read More...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan have teamed up for a new rocket that would be carried aloft by a huge twin-fuselage mothership and launched at 30,000 feet. Read More...

NASA has agreed to let Space Exploration Technologies combine two test flights of the company's unmanned Dragon cargo ship into a single mission, aiming for a launch Feb. 7 to the International Space Station. Read More...

For the first time, astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope have confirmed a roughly Earth-size planet orbiting a sun-like star in the habitable zone where conditions may be favorable for life as it is known on Earth.
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