NASA ends Kepler recovery efforts
Posted: Fri, Aug 16 8:36 AM ET (1236 GMT)
NASA announced Thursday that it is ending efforts to restore a failed reaction wheel on the Kepler spacecraft and will look for alternative missions for...

India ends plans to cooperate with Russia on lunar mission
Posted: Fri, Aug 16 8:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
An Indian official said this week that India was ending plans to cooperate with Russia on a planned lunar lander mission. The two countries had...

Proton to return to flight next month
Posted: Thu, Aug 15 9:03 AM ET (1303 GMT)
The Proton rocket will launch a commercial satellite in mid-September on its first launch since a dramatic launch failure last month. International Launch Services (...

Air Force to shut down space fence
Posted: Wed, Aug 14 8:51 AM ET (1251 GMT)
The US Air Force confirmed this week that it plans to shut down a network of radars that track space objects, raising concerns about increased...

ATK joins Stratolaunch project
Posted: Tue, Aug 13 9:29 AM ET (1329 GMT)
ATK announced Tuesday that it has won a contract from Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide rocket motors for an ambitious air-launch system. ATK will...

Veteran NASA astronaut Foale retires
Posted: Tue, Aug 13 9:12 AM ET (1312 GMT)
Michael Foale, a British-born NASA astronaut, is leaving the space agency after 30 years there, NASA announced. Foale joined NASA in 1983, working at...

Astronomers set new mark for smallest directly-imaged exoplanet
Posted: Sun, Aug 11 10:07 AM ET (1407 GMT)
Astronomers announced this week the discovery of the smallest extrasolar planet to date directly observed by astronomers, a world four times the mass of Jupiter....

HTV berths with ISS
Posted: Sat, Aug 10 9:38 AM ET (1338 GMT)
A Japanese cargo spacecraft successfully rendezvoused with and berthed to the International Space Station on Friday. The HTV-4 spacecraft arrived in the vicinity of...

Report analyzes scientific priorities for Europa lander
Posted: Fri, Aug 9 7:01 AM ET (1101 GMT)
A report by a group of scientists published this week discusses the scientific goals of a future, albeit unfunded, mission to land on Jupiter's...

Delta 4 launches WGS-6 communications satellite
Posted: Thu, Aug 8 7:13 AM ET (1113 GMT)
A Delta 4 rocket successfully launched the sixth in a series of communications satellites used by the US military and allied nations. The Delta 4...