White House proposes $18.7 billion NASA budget for 2012
Posted: Tue, Feb 15 6:51 AM ET (1151 GMT)
The Obama Administration released its fiscal year 2012 budget proposal on Monday, including $18.7 billion for NASA, a figure virtually identical to the agency'...

EchoStar to acquire Hughes
Posted: Tue, Feb 15 6:37 AM ET (1137 GMT)
EchoStar announced Monday it had reached a deal to acquire satellite operator Hughes Communications for a total price of about $2 billion. Under the deal...

House proposes NASA budget cut of over $500 million
Posted: Sun, Feb 13 11:29 AM ET (1629 GMT)
The House Appropriations Committee released late Friday proposed legislation that would cut NASA's budget by over half a billion dollars from the administration's...

Dropped tool has little effect on shuttle launch preps
Posted: Thu, Feb 10 5:26 AM ET (1026 GMT)
NASA officials said Wednesday that a tool dropped by a shuttle worker on the launch pad will have no impact on plans to launch the...

ATK, Astrium propose commercial launcher
Posted: Tue, Feb 8 7:20 AM ET (1220 GMT)
Aerospace companies ATK and EADS Astrium announced Tuesday plans to develop a new launch vehicle based on existing systems that could be used for commercial...

NASA spacecraft return nearly complete images of the Sun
Posted: Tue, Feb 8 7:05 AM ET (1205 GMT)
Twin NASA spacecraft have now moved into orbital positions that allow them to observe nearly the entire Sun simultaneously. The STEREO spacecraft, launched in 2006...

Minotaur launches NRO satellite
Posted: Sun, Feb 6 8:10 PM ET (0110 GMT)
A Minotaur rocket successfully launched a classified experimental satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) early Sunday. The Minotaur 1 lifted off from Vandenberg Air...

Mark Kelly to remain STS-134 commander
Posted: Sat, Feb 5 9:58 AM ET (1458 GMT)
NASA announced Friday that Mark Kelly, whose wife was shot four weeks ago, will remain commander of the STS-134 shuttle mission scheduled for launch...

Kepler detects more than 1,000 exoplanets
Posted: Thu, Feb 3 6:54 AM ET (1154 GMT)
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft announced Wednesday that they have now found in excess 1,000 potential extrasolar planets orbiting other stars,...

Russian military satellite launched into wrong orbit
Posted: Wed, Feb 2 8:03 AM ET (1303 GMT)
A Russian rocket launched a military satellite Tuesday, but apparently placed the spacecraft into the wrong orbit. The Rockot vehicle lifted off from the Plesetsk...