MGS failure caused by software glitch
Posted: Sat, Apr 14 9:25 AM ET (1325 GMT)
A software glitch, undetected in testing on the ground, caused the demise of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft last November, an investigation board...

Boisvert named new head of CSA
Posted: Fri, Apr 13 12:32 PM ET (1632 GMT)
The former CEO of a Canadian satellite operator has beem tapped to become the new president of the Canadian Space Agency. The Canadian government announced...

China launches oceanographic satellite
Posted: Thu, Apr 12 9:38 AM ET (1338 GMT)
China launched its second ocean sciences satellite Wednesday, according to state media reports. A Long March 2C lifted off from the Taiyuan launch center at...

Water detected in exoplanet atmosphere
Posted: Thu, Apr 12 9:26 AM ET (1326 GMT)
An astronomer has detected the first evidence of water in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. In a paper to be published in the Astrophyical...

Shuttle launch slips to June
Posted: Wed, Apr 11 9:51 AM ET (1351 GMT)
The next space shuttle launch is now scheduled for no earlier than June 8 after shuttle managers concluded Tuesday that they need more time to...

Bigelow Aerospace reveals business plan
Posted: Wed, Apr 11 9:39 AM ET (1339 GMT)
Bigelow Aerospace, the Las Vegas-based company developing inflatable orbital habitats, released new details about its business plan on Tuesday, including efforts to target both...

Proton launches Canadian communications satellite
Posted: Tue, Apr 10 10:21 AM ET (1421 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched a communications satellite for a Canadian company early Tuesday. The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 6:...

Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Tue, Apr 10 10:07 AM ET (1407 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American space tourist docked with the ISS on Monday afternoon. The Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft docked...

Changing albedo may explain Martian global warming
Posted: Mon, Apr 9 2:44 PM ET (1844 GMT)
An increase in temperatures measured in the atmosphere of Mars may be explained by changes in the albedo, or reflectivity, of the planet's surface....

Soyuz launched to ISS
Posted: Sat, Apr 7 4:08 PM ET (2008 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American space tourist lifted off Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a mission to the International...