US space agency chief views prototype engine for asteroid-capture mission PASADENA, California (AP) — Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to l...

NASA chief views prototype ion engine for asteroid-capture mission; meets with engineers PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious m...

Gov. Brown joins more than 500 scientists releasing 20-page call to action on climate change MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown kept crusading Thursday for climate change, joining scientists who released a 20-page call to ac...

'Candelabra' sheds light on a steamy show-biz affair, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon NEW YORK (AP) — The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself. Liberace, for...

Idaho Press Club awards for the annual 2012 contest BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Here are the results of the Idaho Press Club Awards for stories published in 2011. The awards were announced during a banquet in Boise on Saturday evening. ...

High-tech printers turn digital designs into 3-dimensional models CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — 3-D technology isn't just for movie theatres and comic books anymore. In fact, it may very well reshape the landscape for American manufacturing...

Private spaceship testing underway at NASA facilities in Va, Calif NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Colorado company developing a spaceship to take astronauts to the International Space Station is having elements of its spacecraft undergo landing...

US space agency's planet-hunting telescope is broken; 'can't point where we need to point' LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA's Kepler planet-hunting telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing a U.S. mission that opened up whole new possibilit...

Future of planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft uncertain after malfunction; NASA trying to fix LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist...

Beam me up popcorn Scotty; space station crew gets 'Star Trek' film before Earthlings WASHINGTON (AP) — The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before — to see the new "Star Trek" film. ...

Correction: Space Station-Star Trek story WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 15 about astronauts at the International Space Station getting the new "Star Trek" movie, The Associated Press reported erroneously when the film opened on Eart...

3-man crew returns safely from International Space Station MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kaz...