Senate committee debates EELV competition
Posted: Thu, Mar 6 6:56 AM ET (1156 GMT)
A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee heard dueling testimony Wednesday from the head of the company that currently provides launch services for major military...

White House proposes $17.5-billion NASA budget for 2015
Posted: Wed, Mar 5 6:23 AM ET (1123 GMT)
A proposed fiscal year 2015 budget released by the Obama Administration would provide NASA with $17.5 billion but could force the agency to mothball...

China: "control circuit" failure on Yutu keeps rover from moving
Posted: Tue, Mar 4 6:13 AM ET (1113 GMT)
Chinese officials said the malfunction of a "control circuit" on its first lunar rover, Yutu, is keeping the rover from moving. The failed circuit in...

DigitalGlobe stock falls after revenues miss
Posted: Sat, Mar 1 9:29 AM ET (1429 GMT)
Commercial remote sensing company DigitalGlobe saw its stock price plummet by 25 percent after reporting revenues below earlier projections. The company said it had revenues...

H-2A launches US-Japan weather satellite
Posted: Fri, Feb 28 7:40 AM ET (1240 GMT)
An H-2A rocket successfully launched early Friday a joint American-Japanese earth sciences satellite designed to study global precipitation patterns. The H-2A lifted...

Astronomers confirm discovery of 715 exoplanets in Kepler data
Posted: Thu, Feb 27 7:12 AM ET (1212 GMT)
In the largest single haul of other worlds ever, astronomers announced Wednesday that they have confirmed the presence of 715 extrasolar planets in data collected...

Report: ISS spacesuit water leak misdiagnosed
Posted: Thu, Feb 27 6:40 AM ET (1140 GMT)
An investigation into a water leak in a spacesuit that nearly caused an astronaut to drown last year found that the leak started on an...

SpaceX moves closer to Air Force certification for Falcon 9
Posted: Thu, Feb 27 6:16 AM ET (1116 GMT)
SpaceX is one step closer to winning Air Force certification of its Falcon 9 rocket, a requirement for winning military launch contracts, after the Air...

Astronomers observe largest recorded meteor impact on the Moon
Posted: Tue, Feb 25 7:38 AM ET (1238 GMT)
Spanish astronomers announced they detected what they believe to be the largest meteor impact on the surface of the Moon ever recorded. In a paper...

Sea Launch president to depart company
Posted: Tue, Feb 25 7:24 AM ET (1224 GMT)
The president of commercial launch provider Sea Launch will leave the company at the end of this month, the company announced Monday. Kjell Karlsen, who...