The second flight of ESA`s newest launch vehicle, Vega, has been completed from Europe`s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, releasing 3 satellites into different orbits.
May 7 2013, 12:53 pm
Read MoreScientists have discovered two Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star.
April 20 2013, 1:01 am
Read MoreAn impressive 132-foot high rocket is set for a test launch on Saturday after a technical glitch and bad weather halted its previous two attempts.
April 20 2013, 4:07 pm
Read MoreNASA`s Mars orbiter may have spotted remains of the pioneering Soviet Mars 3 probe - the Red Planet`s first semi-successful visitor - that landed on the its surface in 1971.
April 12 2013, 5:17 pm
Read MoreThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to be launched by NASA in 2018, will be capable of detecting oxygen and water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf.
April 25 2013, 1:12 pm
Read MoreAstronomers have been able to obtain the first images of a dust belt - produced by colliding comets or asteroids - orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system.
April 10 2013, 10:11 am
Read MoreScientists have identified a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the dizzying rate of once every 2.4 hours, smashing the previous record by nearly an hour.
March 20 2013, 12:56 pm
Read MoreThree members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, ending a mission lasting almost five months.
May 14 2013, 10:02 am
Read MoreAstronauts on the International Space Station have discovered a leak of ammonia coolant on their orbiting habitat, and NASA is looking into the problem.
May 10 2013, 11:54 am
Read MoreThe engines of a Russian Progress M-17M space freighter were fired to re-adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), a Russian space agency spokesman said.
February 23 2013, 9:38 am
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