Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter passes away
Posted: Thu, Oct 10 7:36 PM ET (2336 GMT)
Scott Carpenter, the second American to go into orbit, died Thursday at the age of 88. Carpenter suffered a stroke late last month and had...

Juno flies past Earth, goes into safe mode
Posted: Thu, Oct 10 8:38 AM ET (1238 GMT)
NASA's Juno spacecraft made a flyby of Earth on Wednesday en route to Jupiter, but the spacecraft entered safe mode shortly thereafter. The Juno...

Neptunian moon recovered in Hubble images
Posted: Wed, Oct 9 7:25 AM ET (1125 GMT)
A tiny moon of Neptune not seen since its discovery by Voyager 2 nearly a quarter-century ago has been found by astronomers examining Hubble...

Scientists win Nobel for Higgs Boson
Posted: Wed, Oct 9 7:03 AM ET (1103 GMT)
Two physicists won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for promulgating the existence of a particle that gives other particles mass. Peter Higgs and...

LADEE enters lunar orbit
Posted: Mon, Oct 7 6:19 AM ET (1019 GMT)
A NASA spacecraft launched last month has entered orbit around the Moon despite the ongoing shutdown of most of the space agency. The Lunar Atmosphere...

NBC and Virgin Galactic partner on space tourism reality show
Posted: Sat, Oct 5 9:07 AM ET (1307 GMT)
Television network NBC and space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced on Thursday plans to work with veteran reality TV producer Mark Burnett on a show...

MAVEN launch preparations resume
Posted: Fri, Oct 4 8:12 AM ET (1212 GMT)
Work has resumed on a NASA Mars mission slated for launch next month after officials determined the mission was exempt from the federal government shutdown....

Mars crater could be ancient supervolcano
Posted: Thu, Oct 3 6:59 AM ET (1059 GMT)
A basin on the surface of Mars originally believed to be the remnant of an impact may instead be the remnant of a supervolcano that...

Budget impasse shuts down most of NASA
Posted: Tue, Oct 1 8:00 AM ET (1200 GMT)
The failure of Congress to agree on a stopgap funding bill for the federal government has resulted in much of the federal government, including most...

Plastic ingredient found in Titan's atmosphere
Posted: Tue, Oct 1 7:42 AM ET (1142 GMT)
Scientists announced Monday that they have discovered a chemical commonly used in plastics in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. Researchers detected the presence...