NASA selects Mars Scout finalists
Posted: Sat, Dec 7 10:43 AM ET (1543 GMT)
NASA announced Friday that it has selected four missions as finalists for its Mars Scout spacecraft program later this decade. One of the four missions...

Shuttle landing delayed for third straight day
Posted: Fri, Dec 6 4:40 PM ET (2140 GMT)
NASA delayed the landing of the space shuttle Endeavour for a record-setting third straight day Friday, but shuttle managers said they would bring the...

ISS partners agree to increase crew size
Posted: Fri, Dec 6 2:51 PM ET (1951 GMT)
The five space agencies involved with the International Space Station have agreed to work on ways of expanding the size of the permanent crew of...

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...