Author: Staff Writer

Foam May Have Ripped Gash In Orbiter Vehicle Space Shuttle Endeavour suffered damage, a gash more than an inch long plus perhaps as many as four other hits, in heat...

President Bush assailed Iran for obstinately posing a nuclear threat while at the same time Iran threatens the continued existence of Israel, two facts that he said should concern the...

NASA gave Alliant Techsystems [ATK] a $1.8 billion sole-source contract for design, development, testing, and evaluation of the first stage of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles. Ares...

Loral Space & Communications saw revenues increase by 17 percent in the second quarter, and 22 percent for the first half of the year, the company announced Aug. 8. For...

In a case stemming from more than a dozen years ago, Semtek International Inc. is proceeding against various Russian entities to collect a $381 million civil judgment awarded by a...

Admiral Sees Iran As “Aggressive, Destabilizing;” He Backs European BMD The United States needs a ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield to guard against attacks involving missiles tipped with weapons of...

The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour on its STS-118 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed a day to 6:36 p.m. ET Wednesday, so crews will have...

Peering down at Earth from an orbit hundreds of miles high reveals a planet where there are no visible national boundaries, no identifiable strongholds or clearly-seen bitterly contested bits of...

The plucky Mars rover vehicles still are clinging to life amidst a bitterly blinding dust storm on the red planet, but their health is touch-and-go. Even if the rovers take...

NASA selected four proposals focusing on astrophysics priorities in lunar science to facilitate an exploration program. Those proposed studies would help develop new opportunities to conduct important science investigations during...