NASA releases first Sun images from SDO
Posted: Fri, Apr 23 6:37 AM ET (1037 GMT)
NASA unveiled on Wednesday the first images of the Sun taken by the new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft. The images, project scientists said, show...

Shuttle lands in Florida
Posted: Tue, Apr 20 2:42 PM ET (1842 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery landed in Florida Tuesday morning after weather conditions improved enough to permit a landing there. Discovery touched down at the Shuttle...

Weather postpones shuttle landing
Posted: Mon, Apr 19 1:28 PM ET (1728 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery will spend an extra day in orbit after clouds and rain scrubbed a planned landing Monday morning at the Kennedy Space...

Shuttle undocks, prepares for trip home
Posted: Sat, Apr 17 8:32 PM ET (0032 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday in preparation for a landing in Florida on Monday. Discovery undocked from the...

Russia launches reconnaissance satellite
Posted: Sat, Apr 17 8:01 PM ET (0001 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a military reconnaissance satellite late Friday. The Soyuz-U rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia at 11:...

President sets asteroid, Mars goals for NASA human spaceflight
Posted: Fri, Apr 16 10:24 AM ET (1424 GMT)
President Barack Obama directed NASA on Thursday to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 as a precursor to Mars missions a decade later. Obama,...

Upgraded GSLV launch fails
Posted: Fri, Apr 16 10:06 AM ET (1406 GMT)
The first launch of a new version of India's largest launch vehicle, featuring an indigenously-developed upper stage, failed on Thursday when the upper...

No additional spacewalk needed for ISS repairs
Posted: Thu, Apr 15 8:14 AM ET (1214 GMT)
NASA managers decided late Wednesday that they would not perform an additional spacewalk on the current shuttle mission to the International Space Station in order...

NASA to retain Orion in revised exploration plan
Updated: Wed, Apr 14 9:35 AM ET (1335 GMT)
Originally Posted: Wed, Apr 14 9:26 AM ET (1326 GMT)
NASA will continue work on a version of the Orion spacecraft as a crew return vehicle for the ISS under a new plan that President...

Astronauts complete final STS-131 EVA, deal with stuck valve
Posted: Wed, Apr 14 9:11 AM ET (1311 GMT)
Two astronauts completed the third and final spacewalk of the STS-131 mission on Tuesday, completing the installation of a new ammonia tank. Rick Mastracchio...