Loral wins deal for Australian satellites
Posted: Thu, Feb 9 6:52 AM ET (1152 GMT)
Space Systems/Loral has won a contract to build two satellites that will provide broadband communications for Australia. The two satellites for Australia's National...

NASA issues new call for commercial crew proposals
Posted: Wed, Feb 8 7:15 AM ET (1215 GMT)
NASA released Tuesday a call for a new round of funding to support the development of commercial crew transportation systems. Under the Commercial Crew Integrated...

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....