House passes bill to rename NASA center after Armstrong
Posted: Tue, Feb 26 6:33 AM ET (1133 GMT)
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill late Monday to rename a NASA center after the late astronaut Neil Armstrong. The bill, HR 667,...

SpaceX tests Falcon 9 for upcoming launch
Posted: Tue, Feb 26 6:26 AM ET (1126 GMT)
SpaceX performed a brief hot fire of the first stage engines of its latest Falcon 9 rocket on Monday in advance of a launch later...

PSLV launches seven satellites
Posted: Mon, Feb 25 8:33 PM ET (0133 GMT)
An Indian rocket successfully launched seven satellites on Monday, including a small satellite to look for near Earth objects and an experimental "phonesat". The PSLV...

Antares completes static-fire engine test
Posted: Sat, Feb 23 11:09 AM ET (1609 GMT)
the first stage engines of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares launch vehicle roared to life on a Virginia launch pad Friday evening for nearly half...

Report finds no root cause for Taurus launch failure
Posted: Fri, Feb 22 6:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
An investigation into the loss of a NASA climate satellite launched nearly two years ago failed to turn up a most probable cause for the...

Kepler discovered smallest exoplanet yet around a Sun-like star
Posted: Thu, Feb 21 7:32 AM ET (1232 GMT)
Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered the smallest known extrasolar planet to orbit a Sun-like star, a world only slightly larger than the Moon....

NASA confirms Curiosity collected rock sample with drill
Posted: Thu, Feb 21 7:21 AM ET (1221 GMT)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected the first rock sample obtained from within a Martian rock, project officials said Wednesday. Curiosity used its drill...

ISS temporarily loses communications with the ground
Posted: Wed, Feb 20 7:14 AM ET (1214 GMT)
A communications glitch cut off the International Space Station's primarily link to the ground for nearly three hours on Tuesday. The loss of communications...

ISS experiment to publish data on dark matter soon
Posted: Tue, Feb 19 7:22 AM ET (1222 GMT)
The Nobel laureate leader of a particle physics experiment on the International Space Station said Sunday that his team plans to soon publish its first...

Cosmic rays linked to supernovae
Posted: Tue, Feb 19 7:12 AM ET (1212 GMT)
Astronomers have found evidence suggesting that high-energy cosmic rays are produced in the shock fronts of supernova explosions. Observations by ground and space-based...