Endeavour countdown begins
Posted: Wed, May 29 9:13 AM ET (1313 GMT)
The countdown towards Thursday's launch of the shuttle Endeavour started early Tuesday with weather posing the greatest chance of delaying the mission. The exact...

News briefs: May 25-27
Posted: Tue, May 28 9:11 AM ET (1311 GMT)
A clean room used by a French-Russian company suffered minor damage when additional sections of a hangar at Baikonur collapsed last week. The clean...

ESA announces revised science mission plan
Posted: Tue, May 28 8:51 AM ET (1251 GMT)
The European Space Agency will restructure a number of planned space science missions and indefinitely postpone a Venus mission, according to a revamped mission plan...

News briefs: May 24
Posted: Sat, May 25 5:15 AM ET (0915 GMT)
A British effort to build a Mars lander has won a major grant from a medical research charity, the BBC reported Friday. The Wellcome Trust...

Leaky valve could delay shuttle mission
Posted: Sat, May 25 3:06 AM ET (0706 GMT)
A leaking valve in a cooling system on board shuttle Endeavour could delay its launch to the International Space Station, Spaceflight Now reported late Friday....

Nozomi hobbled by solar flares
Posted: Fri, May 24 8:06 PM ET (0006 GMT)
Controllers have lost communications with Nozomi, a Mars-bound Japanese spacecraft, after solar flares damaged the spacecraft, the AP reported Friday. An official with Japan'...

News briefs: May 23
Posted: Fri, May 24 10:33 AM ET (1433 GMT)
A problem with the tape recorder on the Galileo spacecraft could hamper its last scientific flyby later this year. Engineers are trying to troubleshoot a...

Early universe image shows "seeds" of galaxies
Posted: Fri, May 24 8:04 AM ET (1204 GMT)
An image of the very early universe released Thursday includes features that astronomers believe are "seeds" of galaxies yet to form. Astronomers used the Cosmic...

Thick ice crust may shield life on Europa
Posted: Fri, May 24 7:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
Jupiter's moon Europa has the raw materials that could support life, but any life would be under an icy crust thicker than previously thought....

News briefs: May 22
Posted: Thu, May 23 6:59 AM ET (1059 GMT)
One of the experiments flown by South African space tourist Mark Shuttleworth is in danger of being lost because of a bureaucratic snafu, a South...