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The shuttle Endeavour closed out a grueling space station assembly mission with a smooth Florida landing on Friday.

Images taken by NASA early Monday show a scar in the atmosphere near the south pole of the gas giant.

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, Google has introduced a new feature in Google Earth, adding Earth’s most faithful follower to the popular geo application.

The world's most populous nations will gaze skywards on Wednesday as the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st Century lays a carpet of darkness across India and China, from Mumbai to Shanghai.

To commemorate the anniversary, NASA released newly restored video footage of the Apollo 11 moon landings — but the fabled "lost" moon tapes weren't among them.

The US space agency Nasa successfully launches the space shuttle Endeavour - at the sixth attempt.

"It has a stark beauty all its own. It's like much of the high desert of the United States. It's different, but it's very pretty out here." That's how Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon, described what he saw.

Four galaxies are involved in this pile-up 280 million light years from Earth.

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet for an ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's Enceladus, suggesting it could join the exclusive club of watery moons in our solar system.

A major component of Europe's ExoMars rover mission is being dropped to contain costs.