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04 April 2013, 07:02 AM ET
NASA scientists and officials celebrated the latest discoveries from the International Space Station on Wednesday (April 3).
04 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Mars is on the other side of the sun from Earth, making communications difficult.
03 April 2013, 06:36 PM ET
Astronomers know more about what dark matter is not than what it actually is.
03 April 2013, 05:57 PM ET
A 16-student team drew up plans for a manned visit to the Mars moon Phobos.
03 April 2013, 05:36 PM ET
The potential dark matter find announced today wouldn't have been possible without the International Space Station.
03 April 2013, 04:57 PM ET
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has high praise for the first results from the space station's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
03 April 2013, 03:27 PM ET
A Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter camera (HiRISE) has been snapping imagery of the used parachute on the Martain surface, along with the backshell it is attached to. It is the largest parachute of its kind ever constructed - about 65 feet in diameter.
03 April 2013, 02:42 PM ET
SPACE.com's Miriam Kramer asked Nobel prize winner and NASA's AMS-02 principle investigator Samuel C.C. Ting about the performance of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the ISS (a mission that was almost scrapped after the Columbia Disaster).
03 April 2013, 02:06 PM ET
A panel of scientists discuss the issues facing the search for and understanding of planets orbiting far-distant stars in part one of an eight-part series.
03 April 2013, 01:36 PM ET
A space station particle detector has found hints of dark matter, but experiments deep below the Earth's surface may directly detect it.
03 April 2013, 12:03 PM ET
Advanced cameras helped scientists spot the phenomenon.
03 April 2013, 11:35 AM ET
See photos from the April 3, 2013, announcement of tantalizing clues to dark matter from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
03 April 2013, 11:23 AM ET
This stunning space wallpaper reveals W3, which is an enormous stellar nursery about 6200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy’s main spiral arms, that hosts both low- and high-mass star formation.
03 April 2013, 11:00 AM ET
A space station particle detector has found hints of elusive dark matter in cosmic radiation.
03 April 2013, 09:59 AM ET
NASA has compiled some of the best imagery attained of our world in 2012. Imagery and animations from the Space Station and multiple Earth observing missions were used.
03 April 2013, 09:54 AM ET
The space agency will unveil the first results from the $2 billion antimatter-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station.
03 April 2013, 09:34 AM ET
A NACA staff testing the chemical properties of substances at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory.
03 April 2013, 07:37 AM ET
Night sky photographer Martin Pugh in Australia captured this amazing view of the Pencil Nebula in March 2013.
03 April 2013, 07:33 AM ET
The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation tells us the age and composition of the universe and raises new questions that must be answered.
03 April 2013, 07:26 AM ET
New supercomputer simulations show how spiral galaxies like the Milky Way get, and keep, their skinny, star-studded arms.
03 April 2013, 07:01 AM ET
Here are some of the most puzzling mysteries facing astronomers today.
02 April 2013, 08:30 PM ET
Backpack-friendly plane flies over Costa Rican volcano for NASA.
02 April 2013, 06:43 PM ET
The science results come from the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station.
02 April 2013, 04:48 PM ET
See the space station's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a $2 billion machine to catch cosmic rays in orbit.
02 April 2013, 03:52 PM ET
A collision may have spun Saturn's fourth moon around 180 degrees.
