Errant boat scrubs Antares launch
Posted: Tue, Oct 28 8:44 AM ET (1244 GMT)
A boat that strayed into restricted waters forced launch controllers to scrub Monday's scheduled launch of a cargo mission to the International Space Station....

Dragon departs ISS, returns to Earth
Posted: Mon, Oct 27 8:20 AM ET (1220 GMT)
A commercial cargo spacecraft departed from the International Space Station on Saturday morning and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean several hours later. The SpaceX...

Rosetta's comet composition yields an unpleasant odor
Posted: Mon, Oct 27 8:09 AM ET (1209 GMT)
The comet being studied by Europe's Rosetta mission has a composition that would, if it could be smelled, produce an unpleasant odor. Analyses of...

China launches circumlunar mission
Posted: Sat, Oct 25 11:39 AM ET (1539 GMT)
China launched early Friday a spacecraft on a trip around the Moon that the country describes as a test of a future lunar sample return...

Russian cosmonauts speed through EVA
Posted: Thu, Oct 23 7:02 AM ET (1102 GMT)
Two Russian cosmonauts worked quickly on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, completing their tasks well ahead of schedule. Max Suraev and...

Proton launches Russian communications satellite
Posted: Wed, Oct 22 9:04 AM ET (1304 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched a Russian communications satellite on Tuesday. The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 11:09 am EDT (...

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...