Air Force grants waiver for Boeing GPS launches
Posted: Fri, Aug 27 10:48 AM ET (1448 GMT)
The Air Force granted a waiver to The Boeing Company Thursday to carry out the launches of four GPS satellites over the next year despite...

Mars Odyssey begins extended mission
Posted: Thu, Aug 26 1:21 PM ET (1721 GMT)
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, in orbit around the Red Planet for nearly three years, started a two-year extended mission on Wednesday. The...

Pentagon may lift Boeing sanctions soon
Posted: Wed, Aug 25 1:28 PM ET (1728 GMT)
A top Air Force official suggested Tuesday that a contracting ban on Boeing’s launch vehicles unit may be lifted by the end of next...

Beagle 2 report released
Posted: Wed, Aug 25 12:30 AM ET (0430 GMT)
An internal investigation into the loss of the British-built Beagle 2 spacecraft has failed to come up with a definitive explanation for the failure...

Asteroid skims past Earth
Posted: Tue, Aug 24 11:20 AM ET (1520 GMT)
A small asteroid passed closer to Earth than any previously-observed body without striking the planet in March, scientists announced over the weekend. The asteroid,...

Russia rejects space tourist bid
Posted: Sat, Aug 21 9:58 AM ET (1358 GMT)
Officials with the Russian space agency announced Friday that a Russian millionaire will not fly as a space tourist on an October Soyuz flight to...

Loral submits reorganization plan
Posted: Fri, Aug 20 10:36 AM ET (1436 GMT)
Satellite operator and manufacturer Loral announced Thursday that it has submitted a reorganization plan that will allow the company to exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Spirit finds more evidence of Mars water
Posted: Thu, Aug 19 10:13 AM ET (1413 GMT)
The NASA Mars rover Spirit has found additional evidence that water once flowed through and altered the rocks in Gusev Crater, project scientists said Wednesday....

Russian space tourist may not fly
Posted: Wed, Aug 18 9:37 PM ET (0137 GMT)
Efforts by a Russian businessman to fly on a Soyuz flight to the ISS this fall are on the verge of failure, Interfax reported Wednesday....

Stellar observations date Milky Way
Posted: Wed, Aug 18 9:29 PM ET (0129 GMT)
Observations of two stars in a nearby globular cluster have allowed astronomers to compute the most accurate age of the Milky Way to date. Italian...