Astrobotic, CMU unveil lunar rover
Posted: Wed, Nov 26 7:55 AM ET (1255 GMT)
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) unveiled Monday a lunar rover that it will provide to a team competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. The...

Pegasus wins contract for NASA satellite launch
Posted: Wed, Nov 26 7:38 AM ET (1238 GMT)
NASA awarded a contract to Orbital Sciences Corporation for a Pegasus XL launch of a space science mission in 2017. The Pegasus will launch the...

New crew arrives at ISS
Posted: Mon, Nov 24 6:44 AM ET (1144 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three people launched from Kazakhstan early Monday and arrived at the International Space Station less than six hours later. The Soyuz...

China launches two satellites within 24 hours
Posted: Fri, Nov 21 7:40 AM ET (1240 GMT)
Two Chinese launches placed into orbit Earth observation and disaster monitoring satellites in less than 24 hours on Thursday and Friday. A Long March 2D...

British company announced crowdfunded lunar mission plan
Posted: Thu, Nov 20 8:18 AM ET (1318 GMT)
A British company announced plans Wednesday to raise nearly $1 million through a crowdfunding campaign in the next month in the first phase of a...

ATK and Orbital postpone vote to approve merger
Posted: Thu, Nov 20 8:03 AM ET (1303 GMT)
ATK and Orbital Sciences Corp. announced this week that they have pushed back shareholder votes on their planned merger until late January in response to...

Russia considering new space station
Posted: Tue, Nov 18 9:50 AM ET (1450 GMT)
Russian media reported Monday that Russia was considering the development of its own space station and could withdraw from the International Space Station after 2020....

Philae drains battery, enters hibernation
Posted: Sat, Nov 15 11:42 AM ET (1642 GMT)
ESA's Philae lander stopped transmitting early Saturday as the spacecraft, located in a shadowed region of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, exhausted its batteries. ESA...

China launches imaging satellite
Posted: Sat, Nov 15 11:31 AM ET (1631 GMT)
A Long March rocket placed a Chinese Earth imaging satellite into orbit on Saturday. The Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite...

Philae spacecraft lands on comet
Posted: Thu, Nov 13 10:09 AM ET (1509 GMT)
A European spacecraft landed on the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko Wednesday, but bounced at least twice before coming to a rest. The Philae...