Kosmos launches two satellites
Posted: Thu, Jan 20 7:52 AM ET (1252 GMT)
A Russian Kosmos launch vehicle placed two satellites into orbit early Thursday. The Kosmos 3M booster lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia...

Brown dwarfs heavier than expected
Posted: Thu, Jan 20 7:43 AM ET (1243 GMT)
Brown dwarfs, objects intermediate in size between stars and planets, may be twice as heavy as predicted, a finding that could raise doubts about the...

ESA, Roskosmos sign launcher agreement
Posted: Wed, Jan 19 8:07 PM ET (0107 GMT)
The heads of the European Space Agency and Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) signed an agreement in Moscow Wednesday to cooperate on the development...

Japanese communications satellite suffers glitch
Posted: Wed, Jan 19 7:21 AM ET (1221 GMT)
A Boeing-built Japanese communications satellite suffered a temporary glitch that disrupted service earlier this week. The JCSAT-1B communications satellite, operated by JSAT Corporation,...

AAS backs shuttle Hubble repair mission
Posted: Wed, Jan 19 6:59 AM ET (1159 GMT)
The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a professional astronomy organization, announced Tuesday that it backs a report released last month that concluded that a shuttle mission...

IS-804 satellite fails
Posted: Mon, Jan 17 10:11 AM ET (1511 GMT)
The Intelsat 804 (IS-804) communications satellite failed in orbit Friday, the second such failure for the satellite operator in less than two months. Intelsat...

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...