Mars spacecraft survive comet flyby
Posted: Wed, Oct 22 8:53 AM ET (1253 GMT)
Spacecraft from the United States, Europe, and India all reported no problems after a comet passed within 140,000 kilometers of Mars this week. Comet...

China launches imaging satellite
Posted: Tue, Oct 21 9:01 AM ET (1301 GMT)
A Long March rocket placed a Chinese Earth imaging satellite into orbit on Monday. The Long March 4C lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch...

Hubble finds potential KBO targets for New Horizons
Posted: Mon, Oct 20 8:48 AM ET (1248 GMT)
Astronomers have discovered three Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) that could be potential targets for the New Horizons mission after it flies past Pluto next year....

X-37B lands in California
Posted: Sat, Oct 18 10:24 AM ET (1424 GMT)
A secretive military spaceplane completed its third, and longest yet, mission Friday with a landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The X-37B...

MIT professor nominated to become NASA deputy administrator
Posted: Sat, Oct 18 10:07 AM ET (1407 GMT)
The White House announced Thursday that it has nominated an MIT professor with experience in space technology and policy to become the second-in-command...

Ariane launches two Latin American communications satellites
Posted: Sat, Oct 18 8:38 AM ET (1238 GMT)
An Ariane 5 successfully placed in orbit Thursday two communications satellites that will serve Latin America. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted off at 5:43...

India launches third navigation satellite
Posted: Sat, Oct 18 8:22 AM ET (1222 GMT)
A PSLV rocket successfully launched the third in a series of domestic navigation satellites on Thursday. The PSLV-XL lifted off from the Satish Dhawan...

Spacewalkers complete repairs outside ISS
Posted: Thu, Oct 16 12:07 PM ET (1607 GMT)
In the second spacewalk in as many weeks, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) replaced a component of the station's power system and...

Study raises doubts about viability of Mars One
Posted: Wed, Oct 15 9:29 AM ET (1329 GMT)
A proposed privately-developed one-way mission to Mars would likely kill its crew within months of arriving on the planet, according to an MIT...

Scientists find evidence of relatively recent volcanism on the Moon
Posted: Tue, Oct 14 8:01 PM ET (0001 GMT)
Analysis of images from a NASA telescope have led planetary scientists to conclude that volcanic activity took place on the Moon within the last 100...