Cassini finds atmosphere around Enceladus
Posted: Fri, Mar 18 7:00 AM ET (1200 GMT)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a tenuous atmosphere surrounding the Saturnian moon Enceladus, scientists said this week. The discovery was based on observations of...

Delta 4 Heavy flaw identified
Posted: Thu, Mar 17 7:39 AM ET (1239 GMT)
The US Air Force said Wednesday that "cavitation" in a liquid oxygen feed line was the root cause for the premature shutdown of the main...

ISS gyro fails
Posted: Wed, Mar 16 7:29 PM ET (0029 GMT)
A faulty circuit breaker caused a gyroscope on the International Space Station to shut down early Wednesday, although NASA officials said the problem will not...

Glitch strikes Mars rover instrument
Posted: Wed, Mar 16 7:26 AM ET (1226 GMT)
Scientists have suspended use of a spectrometer on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to investigate a problem with the instrument, NASA reported late Tuesday. The...

Asian satellite TV venture planned
Posted: Tue, Mar 15 8:36 AM ET (1336 GMT)
A US-based company announced Monday plans to develop a new satellite TV system to serve a wide swath of south and east Asia. ProtoStar,...

Atlas 5 launches Inmarsat satellite
Posted: Fri, Mar 11 10:07 PM ET (0307 GMT)
An Atlas 5 vehicle successfully launched a heavy Inmarsat communications satellite Friday. The Atlas 5 431 lifted off Friday from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral,...

Griffin to be new NASA administrator
Posted: Fri, Mar 11 5:23 PM ET (2223 GMT)
The White House announced Friday afternoon that it intends to nominate Michael Griffin as the next administrator of NASA. Griffin is currently the head of...

NASA plans job cuts
Posted: Fri, Mar 11 9:26 AM ET (1426 GMT)
NASA officials said Thursday that the agency is planning on cutting up to 15 percent of its workforce by next summer in an effort to...

Atlas 5 launch scrubbed
Posted: Thu, Mar 10 9:24 PM ET (0224 GMT)
The launch of an Atlas 5 carrying a heavy communications satellite was scrubbed Thursday because of a technical glitch late in the countdown. The Atlas...

SpaceShipOne to go to Smithsonian
Posted: Thu, Mar 10 4:53 AM ET (0953 GMT)
SpaceShipOne, the first privately-developed manned spacecraft to fly into space, will be donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM)...