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NASA, JAXA reach asteroid sample-sharing agreement
Scientists from the United States and Japan plan to share asteroid specimens from the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa 2 sample return missions under an agreement signed by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
NASA gets budget hike in spending bill passed by Congress
NASA will receive $18 billion in the federal government's 2015 budget passed by the U.S. Senate on Saturday, winning nearly all the funds the agency says it needs this year to develop commercial space capsules to fly astronauts to the International Space Station by the end of 2017.
Live coverage: 400th Proton rocket takes off with Russian satellite
An International Launch Services Proton rocket launched at 7:16 p.m. EST Sunday (0016 GMT Monday) with the Yamal 401 communications satellite for Gazprom Space Systems. The rocket's Breeze M upper stage will deploy the spacecraft into geostationary orbit about nine hours after liftoff.
Launch of SpaceX cargo mission slips to Dec. 19
The launch of SpaceX's next resupply mission to the International Space Station has been rescheduled for no earlier than Dec. 19 to make sure the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship are ready for flight.
Trio of ocean surveillance satellites launched by China
A package of small satellites that will likely track global naval activity lifted off aboard a Chinese Long March 4C rocket.
Rosetta raises questions on how water got to Earth
New readings from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission have challenged the theory that comets brought water to Earth in a series of cataclysmic collisions during the solar system's chaotic youth.
Rover data suggest Mars crater once contained long-lived lake
Scientists analyzing imagery from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover believe sediments left by an ancient lake more than three billion years ago formed a towering mountain that is set to be the robot's research subject for the rest of its mission on the red planet.
Photos: Orion spaceship unloaded from USS Anchorage
Fresh home from a high-flying test flight Friday that took it 3,600 miles above Earth, NASA's Orion spacecraft was pulled off a U.S. Navy recovery ship Monday night for initial inspections before a cross-country trip to its home base in Florida.
Orbital picks Atlas 5 to launch next space station cargo run
Orbital Sciences Corp. announced Tuesday it selected United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket to launch a Cygnus space station resupply mission in late 2015 while the company redesigns its Antares booster with a new engine following a catastrophic failure seconds after liftoff in October.
Orion spacecraft back on land
A U.S. Navy transport ship carrying NASA's first space-worthy Orion capsule arrived Monday in San Diego, where ground crews will offload the spacecraft for shipment back to its home port at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.