Intelsat considers buying New Skies
Posted: Sat, Aug 20 10:28 AM ET (1428 GMT)
Satellite operator Intelsat is considering acquiring smaller rival New Skies, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The Journal, citing industry sources, said Intelsat was considering...

ISS crew conducts spacewalk
Posted: Fri, Aug 19 8:46 AM ET (1246 GMT)
The two-man crew of the International Space Station performed a spacewalk outside the orbiting outpost Thursday night. Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips spent nearly...

Next shuttle launch delayed to March
Posted: Fri, Aug 19 8:34 AM ET (1234 GMT)
In a widely-anticipated move, NASA announced Thursday that it would delay the next shuttle mission until March 2006 to give the agency more time...

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,...