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13 April 2013, 09:13 AM ET
Dazzling Jupiter is so bright, it even outshines Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.
13 April 2013, 07:22 AM ET
A privately funded telescope called Sentinel will hunt for potential city-killing asteroids.
12 April 2013, 11:07 PM ET
All work and no play makes Chris Hadfield of Expedition 34/35 aboard the International Space Station a dull space station commander.
12 April 2013, 06:46 PM ET
Orbital Sciences Corp. is slated to be the second private American company to dock a spacecraft with the International Space Station.
12 April 2013, 05:57 PM ET
NASA is helping ring in Earth Day on April 22 with a month full of special events.
12 April 2013, 05:54 PM ET
This beautiful space wallpaper is an artist’s impression of an exoplanet seen from its moon. The diversity of exoplanets is large — more than 800 planets outside the Solar System have been found to date, with thousands more waiting to be confirmed.
12 April 2013, 05:21 PM ET
Fruit flies launched in 1947 became the first animals to reach outer space and be recovered alive.
12 April 2013, 05:19 PM ET
The International Astronomical Union is the only body authorized to name alien worlds, despite recent public contests.
12 April 2013, 03:20 PM ET
Iranian media reports a 27-year-old inventor says he has built a machine that 'brings the future to you' prompting teasing from tech writers.
12 April 2013, 03:01 PM ET
The tip of the "wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this space wallpaper from NASA's Great Observatories.
12 April 2013, 02:29 PM ET
With a giant crater covering much of its surface, Mimas resembles a real-life Death Star from the "Star Wars" movies.
12 April 2013, 01:53 PM ET
The roving Mars Science Lab's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument tested for levels of the gas Argon in the atmosphere. Those levels indicate the Red Planet once had a more robust atmosphere, confirming what scientists previously thought.
12 April 2013, 12:22 PM ET
Amateur astrophotographer Bruce Brown of Canton, Miss., captured this spectacular image of moonrise.
12 April 2013, 12:00 PM ET
This is part three in an eight part series exploring exoplanet science today.
12 April 2013, 10:10 AM ET
Albert Siepert sits with Belgium royalty for the Apollo 10 Liftoff.
12 April 2013, 09:53 AM ET
Something extraordinary and essential is going on behind the thick dust and blinding starlight that cloaks the center of our galaxy. Astronomers suspect a super-massive black hole. Now all they have to do is get an image of it.
12 April 2013, 09:32 AM ET
See photos of Russia's new Vostochny Space Launch Center, which will host the first manned launches from Russian soil.
12 April 2013, 06:04 AM ET
On April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. See photos of the historic flight of Vostok 1.
12 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Hunting dangerous asteroids should not just be NASA's responsibility, lawmakers said this week.
12 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Celebrate the biggest space party in the world tonight.
12 April 2013, 05:58 AM ET
Photos of NASA's first space shuttle launch STS-1 aboard Columbia on April 12, 1981.
12 April 2013, 05:04 AM ET
Some intriguing tidbits about the Hermit Kingdom's hush-hush missile program.
12 April 2013, 05:00 AM ET
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is running ahead of schedule and on budget
11 April 2013, 05:09 PM ET
USRA's Ryan Fitzgibbons cutely shows why the best place to understand rainfall is from above the atmosphere. The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite constellation will measure precipitation on a global scale.
11 April 2013, 04:41 PM ET
A brief rundown of Pyongyang's rocket and missile program.
