Water, metals detected in LCROSS lunar impact
Posted: Fri, Oct 22 8:32 AM ET (1232 GMT)
A year after NASA's LCROSS spacecraft slammed into a crater near the Moon's south pole, scientists announced Thursday they had detected significant amounts...

TerreStar files for Chapter 11
Posted: Thu, Oct 21 8:47 AM ET (1247 GMT)
Mobile satellite operator TerreStar filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday with the support of its largest creditor, another satellite operator. TerreStar, in its...

Soyuz launches Globalstar satellites
Posted: Wed, Oct 20 8:17 AM ET (1217 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket successfully launched the first of a new generation of communications satellites for Globalstar late Tuesday. The Soyuz 2-1A lifted off from...

NASA troubleshooting shuttle fuel leak
Posted: Tue, Oct 19 6:25 AM ET (1025 GMT)
NASA engineers are working on plans to fix a fuel leak on the space shuttle Discovery before its launch next month. Shuttle workers discovered a...

Proton launches Sirius XM satellite
Posted: Fri, Oct 15 7:59 AM ET (1159 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched the latest spacecraft for satellite radio operator Sirius XM early Friday. The Proton M lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in...

Hubble observes aftermath of possible asteroid collision
Posted: Thu, Oct 14 8:27 AM ET (1227 GMT)
An object initially thought to be a comet is instead likely the debris left by the collision of two asteroids. Hubble observations of the object,...

Doubts raised about "habitable" exoplanet
Posted: Thu, Oct 14 8:09 AM ET (1209 GMT)
An extrasolar planet with a size and orbit consistent with requirements to support life may not exist at all, astronomers said this week. Astronomers announced...

SpaceShipTwo makes first glide flight
Posted: Mon, Oct 11 7:00 AM ET (1100 GMT)
SpaceShipTwo, the suborbital space tourism spacecraft being developed by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic, made its first free, if unpowered, flight on Sunday morning. SpaceShipTwo...

Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Sun, Oct 10 3:50 PM ET (1950 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new International Space Station crew members docked with the station Saturday evening. The Soyuz TMA-01M docked with the Poisk...

WMAP mission ends; WISE enters extended mission
Posted: Sun, Oct 10 3:33 PM ET (1933 GMT)
One NASA astronomy mission came to a formal end last week while another entered a new phase. NASA announced last week that the Wilkinson Microwave...