Mars Express mission extended
Posted: Fri, Sep 23 7:22 AM ET (1122 GMT)
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Thursday that it has extended the mission of its Mars Express orbiter for one Martian year. The decision, made...

Boeing, Lockheed to resubmit plans for launch alliance
Posted: Thu, Sep 22 6:47 AM ET (1047 GMT)
Boeing and Lockheed Martin withdrew paperwork with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday that sought permission to merge their EELV operations, but the companies...

Hurricane threat closes JSC
Posted: Thu, Sep 22 6:40 AM ET (1040 GMT)
NASA closed the Johnson Space Center in Houston Wednesday as a powerful hurricane bore down on the Texas coast. NASA decided around midday Wednesday to...

Spacecraft sees geologic changes on Mars
Posted: Wed, Sep 21 8:34 AM ET (1234 GMT)
New images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft have revealed features on Mars that did not exist just a few years earlier, a...

NASA exploration architecture unveiled
Posted: Tue, Sep 20 8:13 AM ET (1213 GMT)
NASA released yesterday the results of a study that has defined plans to send humans back to the Moon in 2018. The Exploration Systems Architecture...

NASA to keep shuttle work at Michoud
Posted: Mon, Sep 19 7:59 AM ET (1159 GMT)
NASA will keep work performed on the space shuttle's external tank at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans despite the damage and disruption...

Cassini spots Titan shoreline
Posted: Sun, Sep 18 7:51 AM ET (1151 GMT)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has observed what scientists believe is a shoreline of a past or present sea on the surface of Saturn's largest...

Boeing to lose part of spysat program
Posted: Sat, Sep 17 2:35 PM ET (1835 GMT)
The Defense Department is planning to strip part of a controversial spy satellite program from Boeing and give the work to Lockheed Martin, according to...

Two NASA center directors may leave
Posted: Sat, Sep 17 2:25 PM ET (1825 GMT)
The director of NASA's Langley Research Center announced plans Friday to retire by the beginning of next year, while the director of the Glenn...

ORBIMAGE to buy Space Imaging
Posted: Fri, Sep 16 1:53 PM ET (1753 GMT)
ORBIMAGE, a commercial satellite remote sensing company, announced Friday that it planned to acquire one of its rivals, Space Imaging. ORBIMAGE announced that it would...