NASA announces new prize competition
Posted: Fri, May 20 6:07 AM ET (1007 GMT)
NASA announced Thursday a prize competition to develop technology that can extract oxygen from lunar soil. The Moon Regolith Oxygen, or MoonROx, competition offers $250,...

Stuck Mars rover makes progress
Posted: Wed, May 18 8:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
The Mars rover Opportunity, stick for weeks in a sand dune, is making gradual progress to extricate itself, mission officials said. The rover got stuck...

Astrium wins Korean satellite contract
Posted: Wed, May 18 8:16 AM ET (1216 GMT)
EADS Astrium announced Tuesday that it has won a contract to built a multi-purpose Korean satellite. Astrium will build the COMS satellite for the...

Russia extends term of space agency head
Posted: Tue, May 17 8:41 AM ET (1241 GMT)
The Russian government has extended the term of the head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos for five years. In a decree signed May 13...

Space weather warning issued
Posted: Tue, May 17 8:32 AM ET (1232 GMT)
Powerful solar activity has triggered a geomagnetic storm that may hamper radio communications and other activity, scientists said this week. The May 15 geomagnetic storm...

Delta launch delayed again
Posted: Sat, May 14 9:19 AM ET (1319 GMT)
The launch of a weather satellite on a Delta 2 has been delayed until late next week after a mishap took place on the pad...

Russia considering replacing Energia head
Posted: Sat, May 14 9:13 AM ET (1313 GMT)
The Russian government is considering a proposal to replace the president of RSC Energia, one of the country's largest aerospace companies and a major...

Pad glitch delays Delta launch
Posted: Fri, May 13 8:30 AM ET (1230 GMT)
For the third straight day the launch of a weather satellite from California has been delayed, this time because of a problem with the launch...

Mars Express boom deployment confirmed
Posted: Fri, May 13 8:26 AM ET (1226 GMT)
ESA officials said Wednesday that the first of two radar booms had finally successfully deployed, after a maneuver locked a final segment of the boom...

Winds again delay Delta launch
Posted: Thu, May 12 7:09 AM ET (1109 GMT)
For the second straight day high winds have delayed the launch of a weather satellite from California. The Delta 2 was scheduled to lift off...