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Space shuttle Discovery's crew of seven astronauts ended their 15-day, 6 million-mile journey Tuesday with a picture-perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center.

President Barack Obama predicted Thursday his new space exploration plans would lead American astronauts to Mars and back in his lifetime, a bold forecast relying on rockets and propulsion still to be imagined and built.

Late in 2009 year we witnessed the largest explosion ever recorded: a super giant star two hundred times bigger than the sun utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray-driven antimatter production.

Space shuttle Discovery with seven astronauts aboard blasted off on Monday on one of NASA's final servicing missions to the International Space Station.

Neptune may have polished off a super-Earth that once roamed the outer solar system and stolen its moon to boot. The brutal deed could explain mysterious heat radiating from the icy planet and the odd orbit of its moon Triton.

Astronomers have underestimated the number of galaxies in parts of the Universe by as much as 90 per cent, according to a study, suggesting billions of stars are yet to be recorded.

The Chinese space agency’s long-range plans include a permanent space station as well as a lunar mission.

A radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft detects large deposits of water ice near the Moon's north pole.

A journey from Earth to Mars could soon take just 39 days -- cutting current travel time nearly six times -- according to a rocket scientist who has the ear of the US space agency.

Endeavour left the International Space Station behind with a new life support module and a bay window observation deck.