Astronaut Janice Voss passes away
Posted: Wed, Feb 8 7:07 AM ET (1207 GMT)
A five-time shuttle flyer did of cancer this week, NASA announced Tuesday. Janice Voss died Monday at the age of 55 in Scottsdale, Arizona,...

Report: US-European cooperation in Mars exploration may end
Posted: Tue, Feb 7 7:13 AM ET (1213 GMT)
Plans for the US and Europe to jointly carry out Mars missions is in danger of collapse because of a lack of NASA funding, the...

Iran launches small imaging satellite
Posted: Sat, Feb 4 7:36 AM ET (1236 GMT)
Iranian officials announced Friday that they launched a small imaging satellite, the third satellite launched by the nation. A Safir-1 rocket lifted off from...

OHB/SSTL team wins latest Galileo contract
Posted: Sat, Feb 4 7:21 AM ET (1221 GMT)
Two smaller European satellite manufacturers have won a contract to build the next batch of Galileo navigation satellites, beating out once again a European aerospace...

NASA confirms delay of next Soyuz flight
Posted: Fri, Feb 3 7:08 AM ET (1208 GMT)
The launch of the next crew to the ISS will be delayed from late March to mid May because of problems with a Soyuz spacecraft,...

Another potentially habitable exoplanet discovered
Posted: Fri, Feb 3 6:58 AM ET (1158 GMT)
Astronomers announced Thursday the discovery of a "super-Earth" extrasolar planet in the habitable zone of its star. The planet, designated GJ 667Cc, is the...

NASA spacecraft detects atoms of interstellar matter
Posted: Thu, Feb 2 7:49 AM ET (1249 GMT)
A NASA spacecraft has detected atoms from the interstellar medium, finding a lower concentration of oxygen than previously expected. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft,...

Russia blames Phobos-Grunt failure on cosmic radiation
Posted: Wed, Feb 1 7:15 AM ET (1215 GMT)
A Russian commission concluded that cosmic radiation may have damaged electronics on the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, including possibly counterfeit microchips, causing the mission to fail....

Goddard director to leave NASA for industry
Posted: Tue, Jan 31 7:07 AM ET (1207 GMT)
The head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will leave the agency to become an executive at an aerospace company, the center announced Monday....

ISS maneuvers to avoid orbital debris
Posted: Tue, Jan 31 6:59 AM ET (1159 GMT)
The International Space Station adjusted its orbit over the weekend to dodge a piece of orbital debris from a Chinese anti-satellite weapon test. Thrusters...