Launch companies announce contracts
Posted: Wed, Sep 7 9:35 PM ET (0135 GMT)
The three major commercial launch vehicle companies — Arianespace, International Launch Services (ILS), and Sea Launch — each announced new launch contracts on Tuesday. Arianespace...

Deep Impact comet surprisingly fluffy
Posted: Wed, Sep 7 9:21 PM ET (0121 GMT)
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Deep Impact mission said this week that the comet the Deep Impact probe collided with had an unexpectedly weak...

Mars dunes may contain water
Posted: Tue, Sep 6 7:27 AM ET (1127 GMT)
Giant sand dunes on the surface of Mars may contain water ice, a scientist suggested Monday. Speaking at a science conference in Dublin, Ireland, planetary...

Mars Global Surveyor in safe mode
Posted: Mon, Sep 5 11:22 AM ET (1522 GMT)
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft has entered a protective "safe mode" after encountering a problem with its onboard processing system, the BBC reported...

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Mon, Sep 5 11:13 AM ET (1513 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket successfully launched a Russian military satellite on Friday. The Soyuz-U booster lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:...

Spirit crests Martian hill
Posted: Fri, Sep 2 8:54 AM ET (1254 GMT)
The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has reached the top of a hill overlooking Gusev Crater as project scientists plot out the rover's future path,...

Hurricane could delay next shuttle mission
Posted: Thu, Sep 1 1:55 PM ET (1755 GMT)
Extensive damage to the Gulf Coast caused by Hurricane Katrina this week could force NASA to delay the next space shuttle launch from March 2006...

Cassini sees dynamic nature of Enceladus
Posted: Thu, Sep 1 1:47 PM ET (1747 GMT)
Images and other data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the icy Saturnian moon of Enceladus is far more active that planetary scientists...

Hurricane damages NASA facilities
Posted: Wed, Aug 31 9:01 AM ET (1301 GMT)
Hurricane Katrina, which devastated portions of the Gulf coast earlier this week, has caused modest damage to two NASA facilities in the area that could...

Orbital wins satellite order
Posted: Wed, Aug 31 8:49 AM ET (1249 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation has won a contract to build a communications satellite for a US-Japanese joint venture, the satellite manufacturer announced Tuesday. The Horizons-...