Milky Way has central bar
Posted: Wed, Aug 17 8:19 AM ET (1219 GMT)
The Milky Way galaxy, long thought to be an ordinary spiral galaxy, instead has a bar through its core, astronomers announced this week. University of...

GOES launch delayed
Posted: Tue, Aug 16 8:35 AM ET (1235 GMT)
A weather satellite scheduled for launch Monday was delayed 24 hours because of a faulty pressure reading on its Delta 4 booster. The Delta 4...

Triple asteroid discovered
Posted: Mon, Aug 15 8:51 AM ET (1251 GMT)
Astronomers announced last week that they have discovered the solar system's first "triple" asteroid, a large asteroid with two smaller moons. Observations of the...

Soyuz launches Galaxy 14
Posted: Sun, Aug 14 10:40 AM ET (1440 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket successfully launched an American communications satellite Saturday after a one-day delay. The Soyuz-Fregat lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at...

NASA announces major leadership changes
Posted: Sun, Aug 14 10:31 AM ET (1431 GMT)
NASA announced Friday a number of new appointments to its senior management. William Gerstenmaier will be the agency's new associate administrator for space operations,...

Soyuz launch of commercial comsat delayed
Posted: Sat, Aug 13 11:11 AM ET (1511 GMT)
The launch of an American communications satellite on a Soyuz booster was scrubbed at the last moment Friday night because of a glitch with the...

Atlas 5 launches MRO
Posted: Fri, Aug 12 3:09 PM ET (1909 GMT)
After two previous launch attempts were delayed, an Atlas 5 successfully launched NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission Friday morning. The Atlas 5 401...

NASA: September shuttle launch unlikely
Posted: Fri, Aug 12 8:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
NASA shuttle managers said Thursday that they believed it was unlikely they could launch the shuttle Atlantis next month as the investigation into foam shedding...

MRO launch scrubbed
Posted: Thu, Aug 11 3:08 PM ET (1908 GMT)
The launch of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft has been delayed one day because of a glitch with the satellite's launch vehicle....

Ariane launches Thaicom 4
Posted: Thu, Aug 11 10:45 AM ET (1445 GMT)
An Ariane 5 successfully launched a Thai communications satellite early Thursday. The Ariane 5G lifted off from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana at...