Huygens lands on Titan
Posted: Fri, Jan 14 1:54 PM ET (1854 GMT)
ESA's Huygens spacecraft has successfully landed on the surface of Titan, project officials said Friday. The probe, which detached from the Cassini spacecraft December...

Bezos discloses Blue Origin plans
Posted: Fri, Jan 14 8:45 AM ET (1345 GMT)
Blue Origin, a commercial space transportation company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, will establish a rocket testing range and launch site in West Texas for...

Deep Impact exits safe mode
Posted: Fri, Jan 14 8:29 AM ET (1329 GMT)
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has emerged from a safe mode it entered shortly after launch on Wednesday. The spacecraft went into safe mode shortly...

SpaceX to buy Surrey stake
Posted: Thu, Jan 13 7:31 AM ET (1231 GMT)
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), a launch vehicle startup, will buy 10 percent of a British satellite manufacturer, the companies announced Wednesday. SpaceX will purchase a...

Lockheed wins Swedish satellite contract
Posted: Thu, Jan 13 7:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
Swedish communications company Nordic Satellite AB (NSAB) awarded Lockheed Martin a contract Wednesday for a new satellite. The satellite, Sirius 4, will be based on...

Deep Impact launched, goes into safe mode
Posted: Wed, Jan 12 8:27 PM ET (0127 GMT)
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft was successfully launched on a Delta 2 Wednesday afternoon but almost immediately went into a safe mode that project officials...

Astronomers see Big Bang ripples
Posted: Wed, Jan 12 9:07 AM ET (1407 GMT)
Large-scale patterns of galaxies can be linked to sound waves created by the Big Bang, astronomers said Tuesday. Those sound waves propagated through the...

MDA wins Canadian military satellite contract
Posted: Wed, Jan 12 8:55 AM ET (1355 GMT)
Canadian space company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) announced Tuesday that it has won a contract to begin development of a Canadian space surveillance satellite....

Hubble spots potential exoplanet
Posted: Tue, Jan 11 9:07 AM ET (1407 GMT)
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of an object that may be an extrasolar planet orbiting a brown dwarf star. The...

Delta 4 failure linked to sensor problem
Posted: Sat, Jan 8 6:36 PM ET (2336 GMT)
The partial failure of the inaugural launch of the Delta 4 Heavy last month has been traced back to faulty propellant sensors in its three...