Far from the Earth, a robot spacecraft has been prodded from deep slumber to make a rare encounter with an asteroid, the intriguing orbital debris that could offer clues into the making of the Solar System.
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency said on Thursday.
Space shuttle Endeavour soared into space Tuesday, carrying Japan's first space lab to the International Space Station to join US, Russian and European facilities there.
