Japanese spacecraft enters lunar orbit
Posted: Fri, Oct 5 8:27 AM ET (1227 GMT)
A Japanese lunar probe launched last month has entered orbit around the Moon, the Japanese space agency JAXA announced Friday. The Kaguya spacecraft fired its...

Senate approves extra $1 billion for NASA
Posted: Fri, Oct 5 8:16 AM ET (1216 GMT)
The US Senate approved Thursday an amendment to an appropriations bill that would add $1 billion to NASA's proposed fiscal year 2008 budget. The...

Scientists see comets, sun interact
Posted: Tue, Oct 2 8:03 AM ET (1203 GMT)
A solar storm ripped away one comet's tail while another comet slowed down the solar wind far from the Sun, astronomers said on Monday....

Discovery rolled out to launch pad
Posted: Mon, Oct 1 8:00 AM ET (1200 GMT)
NASA rolled the space shuttle Discovery out to the launch pad on Sunday in advance of a mission scheduled for launch later this month. Discovery...

Astronaut's son to be next orbital space tourist
Posted: Fri, Sep 28 2:06 PM ET (1806 GMT)
The son of a former NASA astronaut will be the next commercial passenger to visit the International Space Station, space tourism company Space Adventures announced...

Soyuz spacecraft moved at ISS
Posted: Fri, Sep 28 8:31 AM ET (1231 GMT)
The crew of the International Space Station repositioned their Soyuz spacecraft to a different docking port on Thursday in advance of the launch of a...

Delta launches Dawn on asteroid mission
Posted: Thu, Sep 27 8:36 PM ET (0036 GMT)
A Delta 2 rocket launched NASA's Dawn spacecraft Thursday on a mission to two of the solar system's largest asteroids. The Delta 2...

Foton capsule returns to Earth
Posted: Wed, Sep 26 9:13 PM ET (0113 GMT)
A capsule carrying animals and other experiments launched into orbit earlier this month returned to Earth on Wednesday, although the fate of a separate spacecraft...

Microgravity makes microbes more virulent
Posted: Wed, Sep 26 1:48 PM ET (1748 GMT)
Exposing microbes to weightlessness makes them stronger and potentially more hazardous to humans, scientists reported. Researchers at Arizona State University flew a strain of the...

Next Galileo satellite launch delayed
Posted: Tue, Sep 25 1:46 PM ET (1746 GMT)
The launch of the next demonstration satellite for Europe's Galileo satellite system has been postponed until early next year. The GIOVE-B satellite was...