Space station leak prompts quick repair

NASA said the space lab's six-member crew was in no danger

• Aug 30, 2018

Asteroid probe captures first images of its distant target

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on course to slip into orbit around an asteroid called Bennu on New Year's Eve

• Aug 24, 2018

Pence rallies NASA with visions of moon missions

Vice President Mike Pence told Johnson Space Center workers NASA will return to the moon in the 2020s

• Aug 23, 2018

NASA hopeful Mars rover will phone home

A dust storm is easing on Mars, and NASA is hopeful its Opportunity rover will wake up and phone home

• Aug 21, 2018

Solar probe launched on historic sun-study mission

NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe takes off on a flight to "touch the sun"

• Aug 12, 2018

How to watch the 2018 Perseid meteor shower

NASA's Bill Cooke tells CBS News that spectators are in store for a better watching experience this year due to diminished moonlight

• Aug 11, 2018

Space Force is in the market for a logo and President Trump is letting Americans vote

There's one shaped like a shield, a few with cartoonish spaceships and one emblazoned with the words "Mars awaits"

• Aug 9, 2018

Pence lays out plans for Trump's "Space Force" to be installed by 2020

Trump officially directed the Defense Department to establish this sixth branch of the military in June, saying the space force would ensure American dominance in the final frontier

• Aug 9, 2018

NASA names first astronauts for Boeing, SpaceX spaceships

NASA assigns astronauts to the first four flights of new space station-bound Boeing and SpaceX ferry ships

• Aug 3, 2018

Spectators around the world marvel at rare "blood moon" eclipse

Of the 7.4 billion people on Earth, about 7 billion people could -- in theory -- see the eclipse, except for those in North America and Greenland

• Jul 27, 2018

SpaceX launches heavyweight satellite

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted a heavyweight communications satellite into orbit Sunday

• Jul 22, 2018

Blue Origin test flight simulates space emergency

Private space company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos tests systems to prepare to carry future space tourists

• Jul 18, 2018

Newly discovered moons of Jupiter include tiny "oddball"

Astronomers have found a dozen more moons of Jupiter, pushing the planet's total to a record 79 -- including one with an "oddball" orbit

• Jul 18, 2018

Russia launches fastest ship ever to space station

Progress cargo ship made it to the International Space Station in under 4 hours

• Jul 9, 2018

SpaceX brings coffee, ice cream, robot to space station

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship was attached to the space station Monday after a three-day rendezvous

• Jul 2, 2018

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