Atlas launches SBIRS satellite
Posted: Sun, May 8 2:41 PM ET (1841 GMT)
An Atlas 5 rocket launched the first of a new series of missile warning satellites on Saturday. The Atlas 5 401 lifted off on schedule...

Shuttle launch postponed to May 16
Posted: Sat, May 7 8:31 AM ET (1231 GMT)
NASA announced Friday that the launch of Endeavour on the next-to-last shuttle mission has been delayed again, this time to no earlier than...

Weather postpones Atlas launch
Posted: Sat, May 7 8:20 AM ET (1220 GMT)
Cloudy conditions delayed Friday's scheduled launch of an Atlas 5 carrying the first of a new generation of missile warning satellites. An Atlas 5...

Space Adventures confirms circumlunar mission plans
Posted: Fri, May 6 7:30 AM ET (1130 GMT)
Space tourism company Space Adventures confirmed Thursday that they plan to carry out a commercial mission around the Moon as early as the end of...

NASA mission confirms elements of general relativity
Posted: Thu, May 5 7:30 AM ET (1130 GMT)
A NASA mission more than half a century in the making has confirmed two key predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity, project officials...

SpaceShipTwo performs first "feathered" glide flight
Posted: Thu, May 5 7:18 AM ET (1118 GMT)
SpaceShipTwo, the commercial suborbital vehicle being developed by Virgin Galactic, performed its first glide flight Wednesday with its wings in a feathered configuration. The vehicle,...

Russia launches military communications satellite
Posted: Thu, May 5 7:04 AM ET (1104 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a Russian military communications satellite late Wednesday. The Soyuz 2-1a rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia...

STS-134 launch pushed back to at least May 10
Posted: Wed, May 4 7:43 AM ET (1143 GMT)
NASA has pushed back the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour to no earlier than May 10 as crews work to replace a failed power...

Intelsat spacecraft suffers antenna malfunction
Posted: Wed, May 4 7:31 AM ET (1131 GMT)
A new Intelsat communications satellite launched last month is experiencing a problem deploying one of its antennas, the company announced Tuesday. Orbital Sciences Corporation, the...

Endeavour launch further delayed
Updated: Sun, May 1 4:44 PM ET (2044 GMT)
Originally Posted: Sun, May 1 12:20 PM ET (1620 GMT)
The space shuttle Endeavour will launch no earlier than May 8 as engineers continue to troubleshoot a problem with heaters in one of the orbiter'...