Russian managers have decided to briefly postpone the planned re-entry of a Soyuz ferry craft carrying three space station crew members amid work to pinpoint the cause of a Progress launch failure Aug. 24. Read More...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has asked outgoing space shuttle Program Manager John Shannon to carry out an independent review of competing options for eventual manned missions beyond low-Earth orbit, officials say. Read More...

Upcoming manned flights to and from the International Space Station are facing delays because of the Aug. 24 failure of an unmanned Soyuz carrying a Progress supply capsule, a senior NASA manager said Monday. Read More...

Russian engineers are assessing telemetry to determine the cause of an upper stage malfunction that triggered the loss of an unmanned Progress cargo ship loaded with 2.9 tons of supplies bound for the space station. Read More...

NASA's space shuttle program will officially end on Aug. 31, officials said Friday, less than a month and a half after Atlantis landed to close out the agency's 135th and final shuttle mission. Read More...

NASA's $2.4 billion Mars Science Laboratory has completed an exhaustive series of functional tests to verify the car-size rover's readiness for launch in November on an eight-and-a-half-month voyage to the red planet .
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A powerful Atlas 5 rocket roared to life Friday and successfully launched NASA's Juno probe on a five-year voyage to Jupiter, the first step in a $1.1 billion mission to look for clues about the origins of the solar system. Read More...

A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has detected signs of what appear to be seasonal flows of salty water on the surface of the red planet during warmer summer months, researchers said Thursday.
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Boeing will use United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets for initial test flights of the company's planned CST-100 spacecraft, a manned capsule being developed as a commercial venture in a NASA competition. Read More...

Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev launched a small amateur radio satellite during a six-hour 23-minute spacewalk Wednesday, but relocation of a large cargo crane had to be postponed. Read More...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, now in orbit around the asteroid Vesta, is beaming back a treasure trove of data about one of the solar system's most ancient bodies. Read More...