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Under a night sky in the Mojave Desert, Sir Richard Branson and designer Burt Rutan uveiled SpaceShipTwo – now dubbed "Enterprise" – that should begin ferrying passengers to sub-orbital space in as few as 18 months.

The first butterflies to go from larvae to chrysalis to mature butterfly in a low gravity environment are going strong on the International Space Station.

Robots show off as caretakers, entertainers and industrial muscle at Japan's International Robot Exhibition 2009.

On Saturday, Cassini made another close pass at Saturn's sixth-largest satellite, gathering the highest-res raw pics ever taken of Enceladus's jet-like polar geysers and 'tiger stripe' terrain.

Future generations of space suits will function like walking spaceships, complete with toilets

The first antenna for the world's largest observatory arrives high up in the alien environment of the Chilean Andes.

Brand-new images from NASA's refurbished Hubble Space Telescope

How NASA plans to make contamination-free materials in space