London (AFP) Dec 22, 2010 - A group of British children aged between eight and 10 had their school project on bees published by the prestigious Royal Society in a world scientific first, the society said Wednesday.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 21, 2010 - Having collected data through the weekend from Friday's tanking test on space shuttle Discovery, workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center are preparing the shuttle for a return to the Vehicle Assembly
Dulles VA (SPX) Dec 21, 2010 - Orbital Sciences has announced that it successfully carried out a long-duration test firing of the liquid-fueled AJ26 rocket engine that will power the first stage of the company's Taurus II space l
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2010 - The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 20, 2010 - The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft docked this evening with the International Space Station carrying ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and his crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman. They will stay in
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 19, 2010 - Despite its shoestring budget, Japan's space programme has boldly reached for the stars, pioneering solar-powered galactic travel, exploring a distant asteroid and planning a robot base on the Moon.
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 17, 2010 - ESA and Arianespace have signed a contract for the launch of Sentinel-1A, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 17, 2010 - Flight Engineers Dmitry Kondratyev, Catherine Coleman and Paolo Nespoli are on their way to the International Space Station after a successful launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft Wednesday f
San Francisco (UPI) Dec 17, 2010 - Japanese scientists say the recent failure of a space probe to achieve orbit around Venus will likely cause them to scale back their space program's goals.
London, UK (SPX) Dec 17, 2010 - Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has announced that it will be supporting Sierra Nevada Space Systems' (SNC) and Orbital Sciences Corporation's (OSC) work on commercial space vehicles. Fo
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2010 - A Russian Soyuz space rocket carrying three astronauts on Friday docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's mission control said.
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2010 - The costly launch failure that caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own satellite system was the result of a fuel miscalculation, a commission charged with probing the accident said Friday.
Washington (AFP) Dec 17, 2010 - NASA carried out tests on the external fuel tank of the aging shuttle Discovery on Friday after strange cracks appeared during a countdown last month which delayed its final launch into space.
Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Dec 17, 2010 - A Soyuz capsule carrying three new crew members for the International Space Station has successfully docked with the orbiting laboratory, officials said.
Washington (AFP) Dec 16, 2010 - NASA will run a series of fuel tank tests on the shuttle Discovery Friday to see if repairs have successfully fixed a series of cracks that have thwarted the mission's final run to space.
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2010 - ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is on his way to the International Space Station with crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman aboard their Soyuz spacecraft following liftoff from the Baikonur
