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23 April 2013, 05:01 PM ET
SpaceX's reusable Grasshopper rocket reached an altitude of 820 feet, then stuck the landing.
23 April 2013, 03:26 PM ET
Eugene Cernan, the last Apollo astronaut to walk on the moon, left something behind: his daughter's initials in the dust.
23 April 2013, 03:22 PM ET
Harrison "Jack" Schmitt was the first trained scientist, rather than a former test pilot, to go to the moon. He collected evidence of volcanic activity during the Apollo 17 mission.
23 April 2013, 03:19 PM ET
As command module pilot, Ron Evans spent more time orbiting the moon than any other astronaut.
23 April 2013, 03:00 PM ET
See photos of the comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), or Comet ISON, which could amaze the world in late 2013.
23 April 2013, 02:56 PM ET
Hubble snapped the new photos on April 10, when Comet ISON was 386 million miles from the sun.
23 April 2013, 02:43 PM ET
'After Earth' stars Will and Jaden Smith have hope for humanity and our home planet.
23 April 2013, 01:58 PM ET
Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith star in this sci-fi thriller set a 1000 years after humanity left an unstable Earth. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
23 April 2013, 01:03 PM ET
In the new movie "After Earth," Jaden Smith his father Will Smith team up to battle Earth in the far distant future.
23 April 2013, 12:27 PM ET
SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) designed to return rockets for reuse.
23 April 2013, 12:15 PM ET
The TV prop builder, Gene Winfield, 'beams' back to the time of construction to recount the backstory of the ship. It is currently being restored, more info about the project can be found at www.galileorestoration.com.
23 April 2013, 11:45 AM ET
Don't miss this awesome video of a fireball over Argentina on Sunday (April 21).
23 April 2013, 11:00 AM ET
Learn all about Russia's robot Progress cargo ships in this SPACE.com infographic.
23 April 2013, 10:06 AM ET
SpaceX's reusable Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) test vehicle made its highest jump yet, flying 820 feet in April 2013 and landed safely under near-perfect control.
23 April 2013, 09:49 AM ET
The first images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory were beamed back to Earth in the spring of 2010. Three years of observations are compiled, yielding valuable pattern information for understanding our local star.
23 April 2013, 08:00 AM ET
The Mock-Up Reactor core as seen from the Plum Brook Facility control room.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA launched three smartphones into space to test a new kind of cheaper satellite.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA had been splitting costs with the U.S. Deparment of Energy.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Robots aren't yet capable of exploring the Red Planet's most promising environments.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday may be the best nights all year to spot a bright meteor.
22 April 2013, 11:49 PM ET
Astronomers have used ALMA to pinpoint the locations of more than 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. This fascinating space wallpaper shows close-ups of a selection of these galaxies.
22 April 2013, 06:11 PM ET
Mars One will do its best to avoid disturbing potential Red Planet life.
22 April 2013, 05:51 PM ET
Hyperion is a potato-shaped moon of Saturn with an erratic rotation and eccentric orbit.
22 April 2013, 05:50 PM ET
The Mars One colony project raises the question of pregnancy on Mars.
22 April 2013, 05:38 PM ET
Don't miss your chance to see live views of the Lyrid meteor shower tonight (April 22).
