LADEE enters commissioning orbit
Posted: Tue, Oct 15 7:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
NASA's LADEE lunar orbiter spacecraft entered a circular orbit late Saturday, starting a process of checking out the spacecraft and testing its laser communications...

Juno recovers from safe mode
Posted: Sat, Oct 12 11:09 AM ET (1509 GMT)
NASA's Juno spacecraft exited safe mode late Friday, two days after it entered that protective state during an Earth flyby. Officials with the Southwest...

Roscosmos leadership replaced
Posted: Fri, Oct 11 8:29 AM ET (1229 GMT)
The Russian government has replaced the head and other senior officials of the space agency Roscosmos in the latest effort to reform the nation's...

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....