Comets Survive Trip to the Sun
Image credit: SOHO Comets usually don't survive an encounter with the Sun, but SOHO captured images of a pair of…
Sea Launch Lofts Thuraya-2
Image credit: Sea Launch Sea Launch completed its eighth successful mission Tuesday morning with the launch of the Boeing-built Thuraya-2…
Rover Heads to Mars
NASA's first Mars Explorer rover roared into space on Tuesday on board a Boeing Delta II rocket after two days…
Foam Test Breaks Shuttle Panel as Expected
As predicted earlier in the week by Columbia accident investigators when a chunk of foam was fired at an actual…
Progress Launches to Resupply Space Station
Image credit: Energia An unmanned Russian Progress 11 cargo ship lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday, carrying more…
Watch the Mars Explorer Launch Live
If you're going to be anywhere near a computer connected to the Internet on Tuesday, why not tune into NASA…
Proton Launches AMC-9 Satellite
Image credit: ILS A Russian-built Proton K rocket successfully launched the AMC-9 satellite on Saturday, completing the 300th launch of…
Bad Weather Pushed Back Mars Explorer
The launch of NASA's Mars Explorer spacecraft was pushed back to Tuesday because of bad weather at the Cape Canaveral,…
Mars Environment Changes More than Previously Thought
Image credit: NASA A year's worth of observations from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft is starting to overturn some older theories…
Earth Could Have Formed Quickly
Our Earth might have formed a lot earlier that astronomers previously believed, maybe as quickly as 10 million years after…