Spirit loses use of one wheel
Posted: Tue, Mar 21 8:30 AM ET (1330 GMT)
One of the six wheels on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has stopped working entirely, forcing rover engineers to drag the wheel along as they...

ISS crew moves Soyuz
Posted: Mon, Mar 20 8:40 AM ET (1340 GMT)
The two-man crew of the International Space Station briefly left the orbiting outpost early Monday, flying their Soyuz spacecraft from one docking port on...

Report: Pentagon to recommend approval of ULA
Posted: Sat, Mar 18 10:15 AM ET (1515 GMT)
Top Defense Department officials have reportedly recommended that the federal government approve the formation of the United Launch Alliance, a merger of Boeing and Lockheed...

NASA to investigate shuttle arm mishap
Posted: Sat, Mar 18 10:06 AM ET (1506 GMT)
NASA announced Friday that is has convened a board to investigate a mishap at the Kennedy Space Center that damaged the shuttle Discovery's robotic...

Astronomers find more evidence for Big Bang, inflation
Posted: Fri, Mar 17 8:04 AM ET (1304 GMT)
Scientists analyzing data from a NASA spacecraft said Thursday they have found new evidence that the universe underwent a sharp expansion in the first trillionth...

Report: Sea Launch exec to take SpaceX job
Posted: Thu, Mar 16 8:28 PM ET (0128 GMT)
The president of Sea Launch, a multinational commercial launch services company, plans to resign and take a position with emerging rival SpaceX, Space News reported...

Atlas to launch ICO satellite
Posted: Thu, Mar 16 8:24 PM ET (0124 GMT)
International Launch Services (ILS) announced Thursday that it had won a contract to launch a next-generation mobile telephony satellite. Under the contract, an Atlas...

Pin glitch scrubs Pegasus launch
Posted: Wed, Mar 15 1:39 PM ET (1839 GMT)
The launch of three microsatellites on a Pegasus rocket was scrubbed Wednesday morning because of a problem with a pin on the launcher. The Pegasus...

STS-121 launch pushed back to July
Posted: Tue, Mar 14 7:37 PM ET (0037 GMT)
NASA announced Tuesday afternoon that the launch of the next shuttle mission has been delayed until July to allow workers time to replace troublesome fuel...

High-temperature minerals found in comet dust
Posted: Tue, Mar 14 6:53 AM ET (1153 GMT)
Scientists analyzing comet dust samples returned by NASA's Stardust mission have found minerals that can only form at high temperatures, challenging existing models of...