Satellite experiment supports general relativity
Posted: Sat, Oct 23 5:49 PM ET (2149 GMT)
Physicists using a pair of existing spacecraft have provided experimental evidence supporting one of the central tenets of general relativity. In a paper published in...

Steering glitch strikes Spirit again
Posted: Sat, Oct 23 5:28 PM ET (2128 GMT)
The Mars rover Spirit has experienced the same steering glitch that immobilized the rover for several days earlier this month, project officials said Thursday. The...

NASA announces astronaut corps changes
Posted: Fri, Oct 22 8:55 PM ET (0055 GMT)
NASA announced this week that two veteran astronauts were retiring from the space agency while a third was leaving his post as chief scientist to...

Orbital reports 3rd quarter profit
Posted: Fri, Oct 22 1:43 PM ET (1743 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation reported a profit in its fiscal third quarter on Thursday, in part because of stronger-than-expected growth in its satellite manufacturing...

Spitzer reveals "messy" planetary formation process
Posted: Wed, Oct 20 10:58 PM ET (0258 GMT)
Observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have shown astronomers that the process by which planets form around stars is relatively messy, with dust clouds...

China launches weather satellite
Posted: Tue, Oct 19 9:04 PM ET (0104 GMT)
China launched what it called its first "professional" weather satellite early Tuesday. A Long March 3A rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center...

NASA, Russia reach agreement on future Soyuz missions
Posted: Mon, Oct 18 8:26 AM ET (1226 GMT)
Officials with NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) announced Saturday that they have reached an agreement to continue to supply Soyuz spacecraft to...

Chinese capsule lands, hits building
Posted: Mon, Oct 18 8:15 AM ET (1215 GMT)
The return capsule of a Chinese spacecraft landed off-course Friday and hit an apartment building, officials confirmed Sunday. The capsule from the FSW-20...

Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Sat, Oct 16 11:17 AM ET (1517 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying the next crew for the International Space Station docked there early Saturday, but not after a malfunction forced the Soyuz crew...

Switch problem linked to Genesis crash
Posted: Fri, Oct 15 2:07 PM ET (1807 GMT)
A switch that was not properly oriented may have caused the crash of Genesis sample return capsule last month, investigators said Thursday. In a statement...