China confirms Shenzhou 6 plans
Posted: Sun, Jan 23 9:30 AM ET (1430 GMT)
Chinese officials said this week that the next manned launch by that nation will send two people into orbit for several days. The newspaper China...

Titan shaped by Earth-like processes
Posted: Sat, Jan 22 10:10 AM ET (1510 GMT)
Scientists analyzing data collected by ESA's Huygens probe said Friday that the moon's surface has been altered by processes similar to those found...

Report: NASA to cancel robotic Hubble servicing mission
Posted: Fri, Jan 21 6:40 PM ET (2340 GMT)
NASA plans to kill a proposal to develop a robotic mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, planning instead only to deorbit the spacecraft, Space...

EchoStar to buy Rainbow satellite
Posted: Fri, Jan 21 7:19 AM ET (1219 GMT)
Satellite TV provider EchoStar will purchase a satellite currently used by a rival provider, Voom, putting the future of that venture into question. EchoStar said...

Solar storm buffets Earth
Posted: Fri, Jan 21 7:04 AM ET (1204 GMT)
A powerful series of solar storms have struck the Earth in recent days, putting at least one spacecraft into a protective safe mode. The storms...

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...