SpaceX moving ahead with plans for Texas launch site
Posted: Tue, Apr 10 7:12 AM ET (1112 GMT)
A regulatory filing released Monday is the latest evidence that SpaceX is pursuing plans for a new spaceport on the Gulf Coast of Texas. The...

North Korea unveils rocket for satellite launch attempt
Posted: Mon, Apr 9 7:40 AM ET (1140 GMT)
North Korean officials, in a rare display of openness, showed off to foreign visitors Sunday a rocket they plan to launch later this week. Foreign...

Venus may have aurorae without a magnetic field
Posted: Sat, Apr 7 9:59 AM ET (1359 GMT)
Venus, a planet without its own magnetic field, may still be able to generate auroral activity, scientists reported this week. Data collected by Europe's...

NASA panel extends Kepler, other astronomy missions
Posted: Thu, Apr 5 8:51 AM ET (1251 GMT)
A NASA panel has concluded the agency should extend the mission of Kepler, a space telescope searching for extrasolar planets, as well as a number...

India wins contract to launch European satellite
Posted: Thu, Apr 5 8:41 AM ET (1241 GMT)
The Indian space agency ISRO announced this week it has won a contract to launch a European commercial remote sensing satellite. ISRO said its commercial...

Delta 4 launches NRO satellite
Posted: Wed, Apr 4 8:14 AM ET (1214 GMT)
A Delta 4 rocket placed a classified military satellite into orbit on Tuesday. The Delta 4 Medium-Plus (5,2) lifted off from Vandenberg Air...

Supermassive black holes dine on binary star systems
Posted: Tue, Apr 3 6:59 AM ET (1059 GMT)
Supermassive black holes found in the cores of many galaxies grow in mass by capturing single stars from binary star systems that pass close to...

Long March launches communications satellite
Posted: Sun, Apr 1 9:32 AM ET (1332 GMT)
A Chinese Long March rocket successfully launched a French-built communications satellite on Saturday. The Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite...

Proton launches Russian military satellite
Posted: Sat, Mar 31 8:55 AM ET (1255 GMT)
The last of a venerable variant of Russia's Proton rocket launched a Russian military satellite on Friday. The Proton-K rocket lifted off from...

Red dwarf stars may host billions of habitable planets
Posted: Fri, Mar 30 7:18 AM ET (1118 GMT)
Astronomers studying a sampling of red dwarf stars have concluded that these stars may collectively have billions of rocky planets in their habitable zones. European...