Stardust returns to Earth
Posted: Sun, Jan 15 6:24 PM ET (2324 GMT)
The capsule from NASA's Stardust spacecraft, carrying dust collected from a distant comet, parachuted to a safe landing in the Utah desert early Sunday....

ORBIMAGE completes acquisition of Space Imaging
Posted: Fri, Jan 13 7:10 AM ET (1210 GMT)
Commercial remote sensing company ORBIMAGE announced Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of rival company Space Imaging, and that the merged company will operate...

Boeing lands large satellite contract
Posted: Thu, Jan 12 7:22 AM ET (1222 GMT)
Boeing's satellite division has won its biggest satellite contract in nine years, signing a deal to build three mobile communications satellites. Boeing said it...

Research challenges dark energy, cosmological constant
Posted: Thu, Jan 12 7:05 AM ET (1205 GMT)
A new study suggests that "dark energy", the mysterious energy that is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate, may have been less powerful...

Boeing launch strike continues
Posted: Wed, Jan 11 6:00 AM ET (1100 GMT)
A strike by 1,500 Boeing employees involved with the Delta launch vehicle program continues, with recent talks unable to bring both sides closer to...

Hubble spies close companion to Polaris
Posted: Wed, Jan 11 5:52 AM ET (1052 GMT)
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope said this week that they have seen for the first time a small companion star to Polaris. The existence...

Astronomers prove existence of black hole event horizon
Posted: Tue, Jan 10 7:36 AM ET (1236 GMT)
Astronomers said Monday that they have proven the existence of the event horizon, the "point of no return" that surrounds black holes. An MIT and...

MDA shifts Radarsat-2 launch to Soyuz
Posted: Tue, Jan 10 7:14 AM ET (1214 GMT)
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), the Canadian company that is the prime contractor on the Radarsat-2 satellite, has shifted the launch of the spacecraft...

United Launch Alliance wins preliminary approval
Posted: Mon, Jan 9 6:46 AM ET (1146 GMT)
Defense Department officials have given preliminary approval to the proposed merger of Boeing and Lockheed Martin's government launch operations, the Wall Street Journal reported...

Report: Genesis spacecraft test skipped
Posted: Mon, Jan 9 6:39 AM ET (1139 GMT)
Lockheed Martin engineers skipped a test that could have caught a problem with NASA's Genesis spacecraft, according to a newspaper report. The Rocky Mountain...