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NASA releases clearest videos yet of 1969 moonwalk

NASA released newly restored videos Thursday of two U.S. astronauts taking the world’s first steps on the moon. The images were released just four days before the 40th anniversary of the historic event that captivated the world on July 20, 1969

NASA orbiter on way to explore the moon

Humans are a step closer to returning to the moon after NASA launched a lunar orbiter Thursday to provide a comprehensive survey of our nearest celestial neighbor.

NASA scrubs Saturday launch of space shuttle Endeavour

A gaseous hydrogen leak on the space shuttle Endeavour forced NASA to cancel Saturday’s planned launch, the space agency said. NASA halted fueling of the shuttle after detecting the leak on a vent line that leads from the ground umbilical carrier plate to the launch pad and to the “flare stack” where vented hydrogen is burned off, the space agency said.

Mars lander sends photos from Red Planet’s arctic

NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet’s surface on the first day of its three-month mission "to taste and sniff the northern polar site’s soil and ice," the space agency said. The first pictures, which the lander began taking shortly after touching down near Mars’ north pole — the end of a 422 million-mile trek — showed a pattern of brown polygons as far as the camera could see

NASA photos show giant cosmic hand

New photographs released by NASA have captured images of a vast stellar formation resembling a human hand reaching across space. The image, taken by NASA’s space-based Chandra Observatory telescope, shows an X-ray nebula 150 light years across

Space shuttle Discovery launch cancelled

The planned Wednesday night launch of space shuttle Discovery has been cancelled due to an apparent leak in the giant external fuel tank, the Kennedy Space Center said. The decision is the latest in a series of delays for the NASA shuttle mission. In total, the mission has been delayed for more than a month

Countdown to NASA search for Earth-like planets

The U.S. space agency NASA will launch its first ever mission Friday to find Earth-like planets in our region of the Milky Way. Scientists will be holding their breath as the Kepler spacecraft — mounted with the biggest telescope ever to be launched into space — lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.