The Cassini orbiter took this picture of the Saturnian moon Enceladus taken during Thursday's flyby. The Cassini orbiter came through its closest-ever encounter with a Saturnian moon with flying colors - and with

An ambitious project to track down small, icy bodies circling in the far reaches of the solar system has gone cold. Apparently, Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) between two and 17 miles in diameter don't exist.

Video game designer Richard Garriott blasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket on Sunday as his Nasa astronaut father watched with pride.

Toy inventor, Brian Walker, has built a shoot-for-the-sky playground. Spread out over 13-acres here, you'll find all the techno-ingredients of a homemade space program, including his own personal astronaut boot camp.

Nasa is pushing ahead with plans to launch its next Mars mission in 2009, but acknowledges that extra funds are required to make it happen.

Significant discoveries in astronomy of some of the many mysterious wonders of the universe.

The Cassini spacecraft observations of Saturn's largest moon, the orange-colored Titan, have given scientists a glimpse of what Earth might have been like before life evolved. They now believe Titan possesses many parallels to Earth, including lakes, rive