Controlling Mars rovers: there's an app for that What if, instead of pocket-dialing, you could pocket-send-a-Mars-rover-over-a-cliff? That was the goal of two programmers at EclipseCon 2010 (via Slashdot). A competition at the conference asked developers to either create an e4-Rover client or use one to move a demo robot over a model Mars landscape. Two participants, Peter Friese and Heiko Behrens, built the robot-controlling client into an iPhone application. Entrants could win the rover challenge at EclipseCon in one of two ways. ...

NASA launched its Ares I-X rocket Wednesday, after multiple delays over two days because of bad weather.

Space buffs can now keep up with NASA's mission launches by launching an app.

For the first time since September 11, 2001, America is having a vigorous national debate about how to succeed in Afghanistan. This debate is entirely worth having. Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open.

NASA is set to launch the world's largest rocket Tuesday, conducting research to help return astronauts to the moon.

For the first time in decades, a rocket instead of a space shuttle is occupying launchpad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

It's the most complex construction project in history. Flying 250 miles overhead, the international space station can be seen with the naked eye, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, usually carrying a crew of six. Now, before construction of the station is even complete, there is already talk of when the lights will be turned off. NASA is waiting for the Obama administration to decide how much longer the station will fly and exactly which direction the U.S. space agency ...

There wasn't a cloud in the sky early Friday when Dave Samuels trained his telescopes at the moon, hoping to catch a glimpse of a NASA rocket striking the lunar landscape. "We saw nothing," he said. Samuels is vice president of the Fremont Peak Observatory near Monterey, California, which had invited members of the public to watch Friday's NASA mission through its telescopes. The lunar strike happened shortly after 4:30 a.m. on the West Coast (7:30 a.m. ET). ...

The space shuttle Discovery will land in California Friday evening, NASA said after bad weather near Kennedy Space Center forced it to wave off a landing in Florida. The shuttle is scheduled to touch down at 5:53 p.m. (8:53 p.m. ET) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where the weather is described as "pristine," NASA said. A California landing adds a week to the turnaround time before the shuttle can be ready for another mission and adds ...

Space shuttle Discovery was scheduled to launch early Tuesday morning for a mission to deliver equipment to the international space station. The shuttle's seven-member crew has boarded the vehicle and the hatch is closed, leaving the 15-story tall spacecraft waiting at Kennedy Space Center famed Launch pad 39A, gleaming under the bright lights, for Tuesday's early morning launch. Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot Kevin Ford will guide Discovery to the space station after launch, scheduled for 1:36 a.m. ET Tuesday, ...