The test flight launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after technical issues initially delayed it.
Nasa's Orion test flight failed to launch on Thursday due to technical issues. Will it succeed today?
Nasa's Orion test flight rescheduled to launch at 12:05pm GMT / 7:05am EST on Friday.
History and interesting facts about the ninth planet from the Sun.
Rapid ice melt sees Mt Everest worth of water lost from West Antarctica glaciers every two years, adding to sea level rise.
SpaceX job listing requires 'minimum of 10 years of crop row farming experience' in Texas.
Humans spotted on Mars in 1979?
At a time when irreversible climate change seems a likely prospect because of man, the movie could have done without dwelling on the 'man as conqueror' theme.
A Nasa astronaut has made the first ever 3D-printed object in space, proving the tech could help ISS.
David Iron tells IBTimes UK more about the first ever crowdfunded space mission and its objectives
British-led consortium offers donors the chance to put their DNA on the moon in huge crowdfunding campaign.
New station to be positioned at better angle to provide extended view of Russia and Arctic offshore.
Investigations of billion-year-old meteorite yield carbon and hydrogen signatures from space.
Nasa's x-ray observatories detect neutrinos from black hole in the centre of our galaxy.
The baffling Great Red Spot vortex is caused by chemicals being broken apart by sunlight.
Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures will use Moffett Field airfield for research and development in space exploration and robotics.
Two meteor showers to peak over the next week following "extremely unusual" fireball.
Very bright blue light obtained from cosmic glow found to originate from stars ripped off galaxies.
Astronauts with the European Space Agency could one day print rather than build a base on the moon.
Minerals discovered in a Martian mountain contain mineralogical evidence to support life on Mars
Scientists using Google Earth, WorldView and GeoEye satellite images to monitor demographic changes.
Using giant clusters as lens to see beyond Hubble telescope, astronomers have detected remnants of stars ripped out in galactic violence billions of years ago.