Stories by Tariq Malik

NASA will continue operations in Mission Control to protect the lives of the six crew members in orbit and the safety and security of the space station

Cygnus is the second commercial spacecraft to launch toward the space station for NASA. The first private spaceship to visit the ISS was SpaceX's robotic Dragon space capsule

Scientists are now reviewing hundreds of asteroid-retrieval mission suggestions submitted by private companies, non-profit groups and international organizations

Catch a live webcast of the moon as it grazes the outermost layer of Earth's shadow

Comet Pan-STARRS will take about 110,000 years to orbit the sun after this first swing through the inner solar system

The U.S. government refuses to spend 85 quadrillion taxpayer dollars on a Death Star, based on a fictional space station in the movie Star Wars, saying the project's fatal flaws make it susceptible to attacks by one-man starships

The 1,000-pound delivery included supplies and a sweet treat of ice cream for the astronauts

The vessel only hopped six feet this time but paves the way for more reusable spaceflight components

The station may have to perform a "debris avoidance maneuver," but the crew is not in danger

The retired Endeavour is the third of four shuttles to be delivered to museums this year

A fireball was recorded entering the gas giant's atmosphere on September 10, reminiscent of the scarring impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 there in 1994

To celebrate the last transit of Venus in the 21st century, astronomers and skywatchers came together in many sites around the world

This is the first widely visible "ring of fire" solar eclipse in the U.S. in nearly 18 years

North Korean officials have said the Unha 3 rocket, a three-stage booster, was carrying a small weather- and Earth-monitoring satellite

There will not be enough trained astronauts to meet the demands of future space station missions, according to a new report

An unmanned Progress cargo ship carrying tons of supplies for astronauts on the International Space Station suffered a major malfunction after launch

The Opportunity rover is less than 50 meters from the crater rim and is due to pull up to it later this week

NASA's space shuttles have racked up an amazing set of accomplishments over the last 30 years, not to mention the miles and statistics

The probe made history by becoming the first to orbit an object in our solar system's Asteroid Belt