Ariane launches two satellites
Posted: Sat, Dec 22 7:56 AM ET (1256 GMT)
An Ariane 5 launched two communications satellites Friday evening in its sixth and final mission of the year. The Ariane 5 GS lifted off from...

Asteroid could hit Mars in January
Posted: Fri, Dec 21 7:43 AM ET (1243 GMT)
Astronomers are tracking an asteroid that has a small chance of hitting the planet Mars in January. The 2007 WD5, estimated to be about 50...

Boeing wins TDRS contract
Posted: Fri, Dec 21 7:34 AM ET (1234 GMT)
NASA awarded Boeing a contract Thursday to build a new series of communications satellites for the space agency. The contract has a base value of $...

Delta 2 launches GPS satellite
Posted: Thu, Dec 20 11:17 PM ET (0417 GMT)
A Delta 2 rocket placed a new Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite into orbit Thursday afternoon. The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 2 7925-9....

Astronaut's mother dies in accident
Posted: Thu, Dec 20 7:29 AM ET (1229 GMT)
The mother of a NASA astronaut currently on the International Space Station was killed in an accident outside Chicago on Wednesday. Rose Tani, mother of...

Faulty connector blamed for shuttle sensor glitches
Posted: Wed, Dec 19 7:30 AM ET (1230 GMT)
A tanking test of the space shuttle on Tuesday allowed engineers to identify the cause of faulty sensor readings that scrubbed two shuttle launch attempts...

ISS spacewalkers inspect solar panel joints again
Posted: Wed, Dec 19 7:19 AM ET (1219 GMT)
Two ISS crew members spent nearly seven hours outside the ISS on Tuesday, inspecting two joints on the station's starboard truss that allow the...

Black hole fires jet at neighboring galaxy
Posted: Tue, Dec 18 8:16 AM ET (1316 GMT)
A beam of energetic particles and radiation from supermassive black hole is blasting through its neighboring galaxy, astronomers said Monday. The system 3C321 consists of...

Soyuz launches RADARSAT-2
Posted: Sat, Dec 15 9:17 AM ET (1417 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket successfully launched a Canadian radar imaging satellite on Friday. The Soyuz-Fregat rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:17...

Shuttle launch delayed to January 10
Posted: Fri, Dec 14 7:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
NASA has further delayed the launch of the next space shuttle mission to allow workers more time off during the holidays, the space agency announced...