Virgin Galactic dedicates spaceport terminal building
Posted: Tue, Oct 18 9:07 AM ET (1307 GMT)
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic formally dedicated the terminal building that will host its suborbital spaceflights in New Mexico in a ceremony on Monday. The...

ESA seeks Russian cooperation on Mars mission
Posted: Mon, Oct 17 7:32 AM ET (1132 GMT)
Unable to get a commitment from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) is in discussions with Russia to launch a Mars orbiter later this decade....

Astronomers date when universe's "cosmic fog" lifted
Posted: Fri, Oct 14 6:16 AM ET (1016 GMT)
Astronomers looking at the oldest galaxies in the universe have been able to establish a date for when a "cosmic fog" of hydrogen dissipated. Astronomers...

German satellite to reenter later this month
Posted: Thu, Oct 13 7:06 AM ET (1106 GMT)
A German astronomy satellite that has been in orbit for over 20 years will reenter later this month, posing an impact hazard slightly greater than...

India launches Earth science satellite
Posted: Wed, Oct 12 6:58 AM ET (1058 GMT)
An Indian rocket successfully launched a joint Indo-French Earth sciences satellite on Wednesday. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted off from India's...

Dawn images reveal giant mountain on Vesta
Posted: Tue, Oct 11 6:51 AM ET (1051 GMT)
New images released by NASA's Dawn mission feature a mountain three times the height of the tallest mountain on Earth. The latest images from...

China launches European communications satellite
Posted: Fri, Oct 7 8:32 PM ET (0032 GMT)
A Long March rocket launched a European communications satellite on Friday, marking the first Chinese launch for a Western company in over a decade. The...

Satellite failure disrupts Canadian communications
Posted: Fri, Oct 7 8:02 AM ET (1202 GMT)
A communications satellite went into safe mode early Thursday, interrupting phone and data services over portions of North America. Telesat reported its Anik F2 communications...

Zenit launches communications satellite
Posted: Thu, Oct 6 7:40 AM ET (1140 GMT)
A land-based Zenit rocket launched a commercial communications satellite early Thursday. The Zenit-3SLB rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at...

Astronomers win Physics Nobel for expanding universe discovery
Posted: Wed, Oct 5 7:47 AM ET (1147 GMT)
Three astronomers will share the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The Royal Swedish Academy...