Astronaut's mother dies in accident
Posted: Thu, Dec 20 7:29 AM ET (1229 GMT)
The mother of a NASA astronaut currently on the International Space Station was killed in an accident outside Chicago on Wednesday. Rose Tani, mother of...

Faulty connector blamed for shuttle sensor glitches
Posted: Wed, Dec 19 7:30 AM ET (1230 GMT)
A tanking test of the space shuttle on Tuesday allowed engineers to identify the cause of faulty sensor readings that scrubbed two shuttle launch attempts...

ISS spacewalkers inspect solar panel joints again
Posted: Wed, Dec 19 7:19 AM ET (1219 GMT)
Two ISS crew members spent nearly seven hours outside the ISS on Tuesday, inspecting two joints on the station's starboard truss that allow the...

Black hole fires jet at neighboring galaxy
Posted: Tue, Dec 18 8:16 AM ET (1316 GMT)
A beam of energetic particles and radiation from supermassive black hole is blasting through its neighboring galaxy, astronomers said Monday. The system 3C321 consists of...

Soyuz launches RADARSAT-2
Posted: Sat, Dec 15 9:17 AM ET (1417 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket successfully launched a Canadian radar imaging satellite on Friday. The Soyuz-Fregat rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:17...

Shuttle launch delayed to January 10
Posted: Fri, Dec 14 7:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
NASA has further delayed the launch of the next space shuttle mission to allow workers more time off during the holidays, the space agency announced...

Extra ISS spacewalk planned
Posted: Fri, Dec 14 7:08 AM ET (1208 GMT)
NASA announced Thursday that two members of the ISS crew will perform an additional spacewalk next week to inspect a solar panel joint that appears...

Arianespace to launch Spanish satellite
Posted: Thu, Dec 13 1:40 PM ET (1840 GMT)
Arianespace announced Thursday that it has won a contract to launch a Spanish communications satellite. Arianespace will launch the Amazonas-2 spacecraft for Spanish satellite...

Boeing wins Ares avionics contract
Posted: Thu, Dec 13 8:17 AM ET (1317 GMT)
NASA announced Wednesday that it has selected Boeing as the prime contractor for the avionics system on the Ares 1 launch vehicle, the last major...

Shuttle tanking test planned
Posted: Wed, Dec 12 8:36 AM ET (1336 GMT)
NASA will perform a fueling test of the shuttle Atlantis next week in an effort to understand why fuel cutoff sensors in the shuttle's...