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The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter postponed a planned rebooting of the spacecraft this morning after seeing an unexpected rise in the temperature of a star camera that is part of the navigation system.
Read MoreA successful launch occurred Friday evening for the Kepler spacecraft at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket... screen captures directly from NASA TV as the liftoff occurred at 07:50:55 PM PST, reaching Mach 1 some 33 seconds after liftoff. The first stage engine cutoff at 07:54:37 with the second stage ignition at 07:55:22 p.m.
Read MoreHalf an hour after Prometheus tore into this region of Saturn's F ring, the Cassini spacecraft snapped this image just as the moon was creating a new streamer in the ring.
Read MoreA new Hubble image reveals three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of them.
Read MorePayload preparations for Ariane 5’s next launch are progressing at the Spaceport in French Guiana for a scheduled April 16th liftoff with a dual-passenger space science payload — this second Arianespace flight of 2009 will carry two European Space Agency spacecraft: Planck and Herschel, both of which are to explore the universe’s mysteries.
Read MoreChang'e-1, China's first lunar probe, impacted the moon at 4:13 p.m. Beijing Time (0813 GMT) on Sunday, said sources with the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
Read MoreWith the Kepler spacecraft secured tightly to the top of a Delta II rocket, technicians placed the two-piece nose cone around the observatory as they continued working toward a launch no earlier than March 6th from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida's Atlantic coast.</b
Read MoreThe European Space Agency (ESA) has announced three candidate Earth Explorer mission concepts to progress to the next phase of consolidation, which will lead to the launch of the Agency's seventh Earth Explorer satellite in the 2016 time frame.
Read MoreU.K. astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma-ray burst, the most violent and luminous explosions that occur in the Universe — the work was published on February 27th in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Read MoreTitan’s vast dune fields, which may act like weather vanes to determine general wind direction on Saturn’s biggest moon, have been mapped by scientists who compiled four years of radar data collected by the Cassini spacecraft.
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