Huygens images show hints of flowing liquid
Posted: Sun, Jan 16 11:09 AM ET (1609 GMT)
Images and other data returned by ESA's Huygens probe show features suggesting of flowing liquid on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Huygens...

Boeing to cut 100 Delta jobs
Posted: Sun, Jan 16 10:48 AM ET (1548 GMT)
Boeing announced Friday that it plans to lay off 100 employees from the Alabama plant that manufactures Delta rockets because of a continuing contracting ban...

First Huygens pictures of Titan released
Posted: Fri, Jan 14 8:51 PM ET (0151 GMT)
ESA released late Friday the first images of the surface of Titan taken earlier in the day by its Huygens probe, revealing a landscape filled...

Huygens lands on Titan
Posted: Fri, Jan 14 1:54 PM ET (1854 GMT)
ESA's Huygens spacecraft has successfully landed on the surface of Titan, project officials said Friday. The probe, which detached from the Cassini spacecraft December...

Bezos discloses Blue Origin plans
Posted: Fri, Jan 14 8:45 AM ET (1345 GMT)
Blue Origin, a commercial space transportation company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, will establish a rocket testing range and launch site in West Texas for...

Deep Impact exits safe mode
Posted: Fri, Jan 14 8:29 AM ET (1329 GMT)
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has emerged from a safe mode it entered shortly after launch on Wednesday. The spacecraft went into safe mode shortly...

SpaceX to buy Surrey stake
Posted: Thu, Jan 13 7:31 AM ET (1231 GMT)
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), a launch vehicle startup, will buy 10 percent of a British satellite manufacturer, the companies announced Wednesday. SpaceX will purchase a...

Lockheed wins Swedish satellite contract
Posted: Thu, Jan 13 7:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
Swedish communications company Nordic Satellite AB (NSAB) awarded Lockheed Martin a contract Wednesday for a new satellite. The satellite, Sirius 4, will be based on...

Deep Impact launched, goes into safe mode
Posted: Wed, Jan 12 8:27 PM ET (0127 GMT)
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft was successfully launched on a Delta 2 Wednesday afternoon but almost immediately went into a safe mode that project officials...

Astronomers see Big Bang ripples
Posted: Wed, Jan 12 9:07 AM ET (1407 GMT)
Large-scale patterns of galaxies can be linked to sound waves created by the Big Bang, astronomers said Tuesday. Those sound waves propagated through the...