Startup announces asteroid mining venture
Posted: Wed, Apr 25 7:35 AM ET (1135 GMT)
A startup company unveiled plans on Tuesday to develop a series of missions to prospect for water and other resources on near Earth asteroids and...

Proton launches Middle Eastern communications satellite
Posted: Tue, Apr 24 6:27 AM ET (1027 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched a communications satellite for a Middle Eastern company on Tuesday. The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at...

SpaceX delays Dragon launch
Posted: Tue, Apr 24 6:11 AM ET (1011 GMT)
SpaceX announced late Monday that it will push back the launch of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station by about a week to...

Progress docks with ISS
Posted: Mon, Apr 23 6:32 AM ET (1032 GMT)
A Progress spacecraft carrying 2.8 tons of supplies docked with the International Space Station on schedule Sunday morning. The Progress M-15M spacecraft (designated...

Envisat remains silent
Posted: Sat, Apr 21 10:06 AM ET (1406 GMT)
A large European earth observation satellite that stopped communicating with the ground nearly two weeks ago remains silent, although images from another satellite show the...

Progress launched to ISS
Posted: Sat, Apr 21 9:54 AM ET (1354 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a cargo spacecraft to the ISS on Friday as three members of the station's crew prepare to depart. The Soyuz...

Jupiter mission frontrunner in ESA competition
Posted: Fri, Apr 20 6:57 AM ET (1057 GMT)
A spacecraft that would study three of Jupiter's largest moons, including going into orbit around one of then, is the top choice of a...

House and Senate appropriators draft NASA budgets
Posted: Thu, Apr 19 7:19 AM ET (1119 GMT)
Appropriations committees in the US House of Representative and Senate have drafted spending bills that would fund NASA at close to the administration's request...

Discovery flown to Washington
Posted: Wed, Apr 18 7:53 AM ET (1153 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery made its final trip on Tuesday, flown on its 747 carrier aircraft from the Kennedy Space Center to Washington to be...

NASA tentatively confirms April 30 SpaceX launch
Posted: Tue, Apr 17 6:56 AM ET (1056 GMT)
NASA and SpaceX officials met Monday and gave approval for an April 30 launch of a SpaceX's Dragon mission to the ISS, pending some...