Progress jettisoned from ISS
Posted: Tue, Sep 19 8:50 PM ET (0050 GMT)
In preparation for Wednesday's docking of a Soyuz spacecraft a Progress cargo spacecraft undocked from the ISS and reentered the Earth's atmosphere late...

Shuttle landing delayed by debris concerns
Posted: Tue, Sep 19 2:27 PM ET (1827 GMT)
NASA decided Tuesday to delay Wednesday morning's scheduled landing of the shuttle Atlantis a day after shuttle cameras picked up an unidentified object near...

Noxious leak triggers ISS alarm
Posted: Mon, Sep 18 8:59 PM ET (0059 GMT)
The crew of the International Space Station sounded an alarm Monday morning after initially reporting smoke inside the station, which later turned out to be...

Soyuz launched to ISS
Posted: Mon, Sep 18 8:00 AM ET (1200 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying the next ISS crew and a private passenger lifted off early Monday. A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...

Atlantis undocks from ISS
Posted: Sun, Sep 17 12:38 PM ET (1638 GMT)
The space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station Sunday morning as its mission winds down. Atlantis undocked from the station's Destiny module...

STS-115 crew completes final spacewalk
Posted: Sat, Sep 16 12:10 PM ET (1610 GMT)
Two shuttle astronauts performed the third and final spacewalk of the STS-115 mission on Friday, all but wrapping up a successful assembly mission to...

Astronomers discover bloated planet
Posted: Fri, Sep 15 8:24 AM ET (1224 GMT)
Astronomers announced Thursday that they have found an extrasolar planet that is larger than Jupiter but only half its mass, making it the less dense...

Official name announced for "Xena"
Posted: Thu, Sep 14 9:36 PM ET (0136 GMT)
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced this week that it has selected an official name for 2003 UB313, the "dwarf planet" discovered last year that...

New ISS solar panel deployed
Posted: Thu, Sep 14 9:26 PM ET (0126 GMT)
A new set of solar panels installed on the International Space Station earlier this week by the current shuttle mission successfully deployed Thursday. The panels,...

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Thu, Sep 14 2:03 PM ET (1803 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a Russian military satellite on Thursday. The Soyuz-U rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:41...