British planetary scientist Colin Pillinger dies
Posted: Fri, May 9 7:11 AM ET (1111 GMT)
Colin Pillinger, a planetary scientist who led an ill-fated British Mars lander mission more than a decade ago, died this week at age 70....

Astronomers create "realistic" simulation of universe on a supercomputer
Posted: Thu, May 8 6:09 AM ET (1009 GMT)
Astronomers announced this week that they have created, for the first time, a realistic model of the formation of the universe on a supercomputer. The...

Curiosity drills into Martian surface
Posted: Wed, May 7 6:54 AM ET (1054 GMT)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has drilled into a slab of sandstone on the Martian surface, the third time the spacecraft has used its drill...

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Tue, May 6 7:58 PM ET (2358 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket placed into orbit Tuesday what is thought to be one of the last in a older series of military reconnaissance satellites. The...

Ganymede may have layers of water and ice below its surface
Posted: Tue, May 6 10:05 AM ET (1405 GMT)
A new model of the interior of the solar system's largest moon suggests its interior may be composed of multiple layers of ice and...

Astronomers determine rotation rate of exoplanet for first time
Posted: Sat, May 3 10:19 AM ET (1419 GMT)
Astronomers announced this week that they have measured for the fist time how fast an extrasolar planet is spinning. European astronomers measured the Doppler effect...

Court injunction blocks purchases of RD-180 engines
Posted: Thu, May 1 9:07 AM ET (1307 GMT)
A federal court judge issued a preliminary injunction late Wednesday blocking the US Air Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) from purchasing RD-180 rocket...

Vega launches Kazakh remote sensing satellite
Posted: Wed, Apr 30 9:05 AM ET (1305 GMT)
A Vega rocket successfully launched a remote sensing satellite for the government of Kazakhstan Tuesday night. The Vega rocket lifted off at 9:35 pm...

ATK and Orbital Sciences announce merger
Posted: Tue, Apr 29 4:43 PM ET (2043 GMT)
The aerospace and defense business of ATK will merge with Orbital Sciences Corporation in a surprise $5-billion the companies announced Tuesday morning. In what...

Technical problem postpones Vega launch
Posted: Tue, Apr 29 6:37 AM ET (1037 GMT)
A problem with a umbilical scrubbed Monday night's scheduled launch of a Kazakh remote sensing satellite on a Vega rocket. The launch of the...