Studies question early wet Mars, find ice at south pole
Posted: Fri, Dec 6 10:42 AM ET (1542 GMT)
A pair of papers published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science has provided new insights in the past and present status of water...

Report: ISS crew size to double in 2006
Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2:13 PM ET (1913 GMT)
NASA and the other partners in the International Space Station project are considering doubling the size of the station's crew in 2006, according to...

NASA scrubs Thursday shuttle landing
Posted: Thu, Dec 5 1:39 PM ET (1839 GMT)
NASA shuttle managers decided Thursday morning not to make any landing attempts of the shuttle Endeavour on Thursday because of poor weather in Florida. NASA...

Atlas 2A launches TDRS-J
Posted: Thu, Dec 5 9:21 AM ET (1421 GMT)
The final Atlas 2A rocket successfully launched the last in the current series of NASA communications satellites Wednesday night. The Lockheed Martin Atlas 2A lifted...

Weather delays shuttle landing
Posted: Wed, Dec 4 8:50 PM ET (0150 GMT)
The space shuttle Endeavour will remain in orbit at least one more day after cloudy weather forced NASA to delay Wednesday's scheduled landing of...

Auditor criticizes Canadian space program
Posted: Wed, Dec 4 2:29 PM ET (1929 GMT)
A report published Tuesday by a government auditing agency concluded that there is a worsening imbalance between the plans of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)...

Astronomers weigh extrasolar planet
Posted: Tue, Dec 3 6:26 PM ET (2326 GMT)
Astronomers announced Tuesday that they have used data from the Hubble Space Telescope to pin down the mass of an extrasolar planet. The astronomers, led...

Shuttle undocks from ISS, deploys satellite
Posted: Mon, Dec 2 11:06 PM ET (0406 GMT)
The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station Monday afternoon as the STS-113 mission winds down. The shuttle undocked from ISS at...

Study shows gas giants form rapidly
Posted: Mon, Dec 2 8:38 AM ET (1338 GMT)
Gas giant planets like Jupiter may form in just hundreds of years, not the millions of years previously thought, scientists reported last week. In a...

Final STS-113 spacewalk a success despite transporter glitch
Posted: Sun, Dec 1 2:43 PM ET (1943 GMT)
Astronauts were able to complete the third and final spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Saturday despite a problem with a mobile transporter that...