Panel members criticize NASA return to flight work
Posted: Thu, Aug 18 8:48 AM ET (1248 GMT)
Several members of a task force charged with evaluating NASA's effort to return the space shuttle flight believe the agency has yet to solve...

GOES launch delayed until October
Posted: Wed, Aug 17 8:29 AM ET (1229 GMT)
The launch of a weather satellite was postponed Tuesday, likely keeping the satellite on the ground until October. The GOES-N weather satellite was scheduled...

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...