NASA delays first crewed Orion flight
Posted: Tue, Aug 12 9:58 AM ET (1358 GMT)
NASA announced Monday that it was delaying its internal schedule for the first crewed flight of the Orion crew exploration vehicle by a year because...

Hubble celebrates 100,000th orbit
Posted: Tue, Aug 12 9:37 AM ET (1337 GMT)
Astronomers marked on Monday the 100,000th orbit around the Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope by releasing a colorful image of a nebula. The...

Air Force to transfer launch complex to Space Florida
Posted: Fri, Aug 8 8:30 AM ET (1230 GMT)
The US Air Force announced Thursday that it has assigned control of an inactive launch site on Cape Canaveral to a state agency, which plans...

Thrust transient cause of Falcon 1 failure
Posted: Thu, Aug 7 8:41 AM ET (1241 GMT)
A thrust transient after the first stage main engine shut down is being blamed for the failure of the latest Falcon 1 launch, SpaceX announced...

Perchlorate detected in Martian soil
Posted: Wed, Aug 6 8:50 AM ET (1250 GMT)
Scientists with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission said Tuesday that they have detected traces of perchlorate in samples of Martian soil analyzed by the...

Iridium picks finalists for new satellite system
Posted: Wed, Aug 6 8:33 AM ET (1233 GMT)
Iridium Satellite LLC announced this week that it has selected two companies, Lockheed Martin and Thales Alenia Space, as finalists for the contract to build...

JSC closed for tropical storm
Posted: Tue, Aug 5 9:07 AM ET (1307 GMT)
NASA's Johnson Space Center will remain closed through Tuesday as a tropical storm bears down on the Texas coast near Houston. Tropical Storm Edouard...

Obama modifies space policy position
Posted: Tue, Aug 5 9:00 AM ET (1300 GMT)
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama retracted an earlier proposal to delay NASA's Constellation program by five years Saturday, saying that he would work instead...

Falcon 1 launch fails
Updated: Sun, Aug 3 8:52 AM ET (1252 GMT)
Originally Posted: Sun, Aug 3 1:14 AM ET (0514 GMT)
The third launch of the Falcon 1 small launch vehicle developed by SpaceX failed about two and a half minutes after launch Saturday night. The...

Report: White House briefed on Mars findings
Posted: Sat, Aug 2 11:23 PM ET (0323 GMT)
NASA has brief White House officials about unreleased findings from the Phoenix Mars Lander mission that could have implications for life on the Red Planet,...