Russian president pledges more than $50 billion for spaceflight
Posted: Sun, Apr 14 11:04 AM ET (1504 GMT)
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would seek more than $50 billion through 2020 to support the nation's space exploration efforts. Putin,...

NASA selects missions to study Earth's upper atmosphere
Posted: Sat, Apr 13 10:23 AM ET (1423 GMT)
NASA announced late Friday the selection of two missions, a spacecraft and a commercially hosted payload, to study the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Ionospheric...

Mars images show evidence for Soviet-era lander
Posted: Fri, Apr 12 10:35 AM ET (1435 GMT)
Space enthusiasts coming through images from a NASA orbiter have found evidence of what they believe is a 1970s Soviet spacecraft that lost contact immediately...

NASA $17.7-billion budget proposal calls for 2014 includes asteroid mission work
Posted: Thu, Apr 11 9:27 AM ET (1327 GMT)
The Obama Administration released its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal on Wednesday, requesting $17.7 billion for NASA and including funding to begin work on...

RADARSAT-1 malfunctions
Posted: Thu, Apr 11 9:09 AM ET (1309 GMT)
A Canadian radar imaging satellite that has long exceeded its planned lifetime has malfunctioned and may not be recovered, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) reported...

Boeing announces smallsat product line
Posted: Tue, Apr 9 7:06 AM ET (1106 GMT)
Boeing unveiled Monday a new line of small satellites, some as small as 4 kilograms, designed for civil and military customers. The Phantom Phoenix spacecraft...

Antares rocket rolled to launch pad
Posted: Mon, Apr 8 6:14 AM ET (1014 GMT)
The first Antares rocket moved to its Virginia launch pad early Saturday in preparation for its launch later this month. The Antares rocket rolled horizontally...

NASA selects exoplanet mission, ISS astrophysics experiment
Posted: Sun, Apr 7 10:04 AM ET (1404 GMT)
NASA announced Friday that is has selected a spacecraft mission to search for extrasolar planets and an astrophysics experiment to be installed on the International...

Senator: NASA budget proposal to include asteroid retreival mission
Posted: Sat, Apr 6 12:03 PM ET (1603 GMT)
A key member of the US Senate said Friday that the White House's 2014 budget proposal due out next week will include funding to...

ISS experiment detects potential evidence for dark matter
Posted: Thu, Apr 4 6:59 AM ET (1059 GMT)
A billion-dollar experiment mounted on the International Space Station has detected evidence for dark matter, although scientists caution that there are other explanations for...