... a much-delayed European Union rival to the United States' GPS navigation system blasted into orbit Sunday after a successful launch atop a Russian rocket, the Russian and European space agencies said. ...
ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time early this morning to raise the orbit of the International Space Station. A 740-second burn of the Automated Transfer Vehicle's main engines ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Scrutiny by NASA's newest Mars orbiter is helping scientists
learn the stories of some of the weirdest landscapes on Mars, as well as more
familiar-looking parts of the Red Planet.
... spacecraft orbiting Mars are preparing for the 25 May arrival of NASA's Phoenix lander. ESA's Mars Express has already started adjusting its orbit to provide critical back-up monitoring of Phoenix.
Space station prototype passes orbital milestone.
A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25.
A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25. "We can see ...
... planets," Bennett said. "No planets have previously been found to orbit stars with masses less than about 20 percent ... dwarf or a very low-mass star.
The planet orbits its host star or brown dwarf ...
... questions about dark matter, black holes, and gamma-ray bursts. Scientists expect the orbiting telescope to detect thousands of hitherto unknown gamma-ray sources. With its extraordinary sensitivity ...
... (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday to put a gamma ray telescope into orbit to probe the most energetic form of light.
The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft crossed the orbit of Saturn on June 8.
A Russian rocket launched six US telecoms satelites into orbit from a missile base in the south of the country on Thursday, news agencies reported.
... after launch, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 350 miles (565 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. GLAST was successfully ...
For the second time since April, ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used to raise the orbit of the International Space Station yesterday. A record boost from the 20 minute burn of the Automated Transfer ...
An Ariane 5 rocket launched two satellites for Arab and Asian customers into orbit on Monday.
