The Delta II 7920-H, or "Heavy," rocket that will launch NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite is in the process of being assembled on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

NASA says more than 8,000 jobs could be eliminated after the space shuttle is retired in 2010 as the change will likely be felt most at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where up to 80 percent of the jobs are expected to be cut by 2011.

NASA chief climate scientist James Hansen has written to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd asking him to consider halting plans for mining and export of coal in Australia.

The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review at the company’s Space Technology facility.

In a new NASA study, researchers taking advantage of improvements in satellite sensor capabilities offer the first measurement-based estimate of the amount of pollution from East Asian forest fires, urban exhaust, and industrial production that makes its way to western North America.

The rotating service structure has been rolled away from space shuttle Endeavour in a major milestone leading up to launch. The liftoff of Endeavour on the STS-123 mission, carrying the Dextre robot built by the Canadian Space Agency remains on schedule for 2:28 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 11.

NASA officials say expected rain showers may delay Thursday's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis whose mission is to deliver a new science lab to the International Space Station. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports.

U.S. NASA will send the Beatles song “Across the Universe” across the universe.

The planet Mercury's magnetic field appears to be strong enough to fend off the harsh solar wind from most of its surface, according to data gathered in part by a University of Michigan instrument onboard NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.

First results from a new NASA-funded scientific instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful explosions called novae and have produced the first unified model for a nearby nova called RS Ophiuchi.

NASA released an image that was shot four years ago by Spirit Rover, which shows a man on Mars. Actually it's like a man sitting on Mars sand and waiting for something or looking for something. This has raised many questions such as "is there a life on Mars"?

A pioneering NASA spacecraft Messenger becomes the first to visit planet Mercury in almost 33 years.