Astronomers find tilted solar system
Posted: Fri, Oct 18 10:29 AM ET (1429 GMT)
Astronomers reported this week the discovery of a solar system whose inner planets are at a sharp angle to the rotational plane of the star...

Chelyabinsk meteorite fragment pulled from lake
Posted: Thu, Oct 17 9:26 AM ET (1326 GMT)
The largest fragment of the meteor that exploded above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February has been recovered from the bottom a lake. A...

Europe to embark on all-electric satellite program
Posted: Wed, Oct 16 9:08 AM ET (1308 GMT)
The European Space Agency, a satellite operator, and a satellite manufacturer announced plans Tuesday to jointly develop a communications satellite platform that exclusively uses electric...

LADEE enters commissioning orbit
Posted: Tue, Oct 15 7:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
NASA's LADEE lunar orbiter spacecraft entered a circular orbit late Saturday, starting a process of checking out the spacecraft and testing its laser communications...

Juno recovers from safe mode
Posted: Sat, Oct 12 11:09 AM ET (1509 GMT)
NASA's Juno spacecraft exited safe mode late Friday, two days after it entered that protective state during an Earth flyby. Officials with the Southwest...

Roscosmos leadership replaced
Posted: Fri, Oct 11 8:29 AM ET (1229 GMT)
The Russian government has replaced the head and other senior officials of the space agency Roscosmos in the latest effort to reform the nation's...

Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter passes away
Posted: Thu, Oct 10 7:36 PM ET (2336 GMT)
Scott Carpenter, the second American to go into orbit, died Thursday at the age of 88. Carpenter suffered a stroke late last month and had...

Juno flies past Earth, goes into safe mode
Posted: Thu, Oct 10 8:38 AM ET (1238 GMT)
NASA's Juno spacecraft made a flyby of Earth on Wednesday en route to Jupiter, but the spacecraft entered safe mode shortly thereafter. The Juno...

Neptunian moon recovered in Hubble images
Posted: Wed, Oct 9 7:25 AM ET (1125 GMT)
A tiny moon of Neptune not seen since its discovery by Voyager 2 nearly a quarter-century ago has been found by astronomers examining Hubble...

Scientists win Nobel for Higgs Boson
Posted: Wed, Oct 9 7:03 AM ET (1103 GMT)
Two physicists won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for promulgating the existence of a particle that gives other particles mass. Peter Higgs and...