White House forms task force for Florida space jobs
Posted: Wed, May 5 7:32 AM ET (1132 GMT)
President Barack Obama announced this week the formation of a high-level task force charged with developing a plan for mitigating the economic impacts of...

Failed satellite drifting, still broadcasting
Posted: Wed, May 5 7:23 AM ET (1123 GMT)
A commercial communications satellite that suffered an anomaly last month continues to broadcast while drifting in GEO, posing both collision and interference risks to other...

Progress docks with ISS
Posted: Sun, May 2 10:12 AM ET (1412 GMT)
The International Space Station crew performed a manual docking of a Progress cargo spacecraft on Saturday after an automated system failed. The Progress M-05M...

Water ice found on asteroid
Posted: Thu, Apr 29 7:50 AM ET (1150 GMT)
Astronomers announced Wednesday that they have detected water ice on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, a discovery that may provide clues...

Progress launched to ISS
Posted: Thu, Apr 29 6:55 AM ET (1055 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a Progress cargo spacecraft to the ISS Wednesday night. The Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at...

Chile selected for giant telescope
Posted: Wed, Apr 28 7:53 AM ET (1153 GMT)
European astronomers have picked a Chilean mountaintop as the future site of what will become the world's largest optical telescope. The European Southern Observatory...

Kosmos rocket launches military satellite
Posted: Wed, Apr 28 7:39 AM ET (1139 GMT)
A Russian Kosmos rocket placed a military navigation satellite into orbit on Tuesday. The Kosmos-3M rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern...

Last shuttle mission pushed back to November
Posted: Tue, Apr 27 8:16 AM ET (1216 GMT)
Problems with a scientific instrument have led NASA to postpone a shuttle mission scheduled for this summer to late this year, making it the final...

Proton launches communications satellite
Posted: Sun, Apr 25 11:42 AM ET (1542 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched a US-built communications satellite on Saturday. The Proton-M rocket lifted off at 7:19 am EDT (1119 GMT,...

Atlas 5 launches X-37
Posted: Fri, Apr 23 7:01 AM ET (1101 GMT)
An Atlas 5 rocket launched a secretive military spaceplane Thursday evening. The Atlas 5 501 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 7:52 pm...