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17 May 2013, 11:05 AM ET
After a day of rest, active region 1748 unleashed class-M1.3 and M3.2 flares on May 16th and 17th, 2013. This same storm blasted 4 X-class flares between May 13 and 15.
17 May 2013, 10:11 AM ET
A new 65-foot-wide impact crater is the result.
17 May 2013, 10:01 AM ET
The X-38 research vehicle touches down on Rogers Dry Lakebed.
17 May 2013, 09:16 AM ET
A NASA moon monitoring telescope captured the blast, which could be seen by the naked eye on Earth, on March 17th, 2013. The object was the size of a small boulder and may be part of a meteor swarm that also flew past Earth.
17 May 2013, 09:00 AM ET
In 'After Earth,' humanity is faced with a choice: Leave the planet, or die off trying to remain on it.
17 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The May 31 flyby of 1.7-mile-long 1998 QE2 poses no threat to Earth.
17 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
What we can learn from the greatest scientific mistakes in history.
17 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Images of electric spacecraft, which have explored the moon, Mars and beyond.
16 May 2013, 06:20 PM ET
Opportunity passed the Apollo 17 moon buggy, which covered 22.21 miles back in 1972.
16 May 2013, 06:03 PM ET
The new spacecraft will aid the network of navigation satellites.
16 May 2013, 04:50 PM ET
This dramatic space wallpaper reveals cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion showing what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky.
16 May 2013, 04:33 PM ET
The Apollo engines are being restored in Kansas, and the public is invited to come see.
16 May 2013, 04:16 PM ET
By 2015 there'll be something green in space, and it won't be aliens!
16 May 2013, 03:54 PM ET
Astronauts on the ground and in space spoke with three actors from 'Star Trek Into Darkness' today during a NASA-sponsored Google+ Hangout.
16 May 2013, 03:33 PM ET
The mountains of the moon are visible for those that wish to see them this month.
16 May 2013, 01:20 PM ET
NASA's Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) will study asteroid Bennu. It will launch in 2016, arrive at the asteroid in 2018 and a minimum of 2 ounces of it will be returned 5 years later.
16 May 2013, 01:00 PM ET
Inspiration Mars may use a SpaceX rocket, a pair of ULA boosters, or NASA's SLS.
16 May 2013, 12:42 PM ET
Astronomer Geoff Marcy tweaked W.H. Auden's poem to grieve for the troubled Kepler Space Telescope.
16 May 2013, 12:19 PM ET
The Space Shuttle Atlantis departs the Mir Russian Space Station.
16 May 2013, 11:14 AM ET
NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg is a flight engineer on the Expedition 36/37 crew and in her down time will be hard at work with the fabric and thread she is bringing along. She is scheduled to launch to the ISS aboard a Soyuz TMA-09M on May 28th, 2013.
16 May 2013, 10:31 AM ET
Asteroid 1998 QE2 is about 1.7 miles in size and makes an excellent target for radar imaging. It will pass no closer than ~3.6 million miles, but is close enough for the Goldstone and Arecibo telescopes to resolve features as small as 12 feet across.
16 May 2013, 09:40 AM ET
'Star Trek Into Darkness' warps into theaters today (May 16). Is there a link between Starfleet and NASA's shuttle fleet?
16 May 2013, 09:30 AM ET
If you enjoyed Star Trek, I don’t know how you could not love Star Trek Into Darkness.
16 May 2013, 07:57 AM ET
See publicity photos of the new movie from the venerable sci-fi franchise.
16 May 2013, 07:43 AM ET
NASA will host a Google+ Hangout with the cast and crew of "Star Trek Into Darkness" and space station astronaut Chris Cassidy today.
