Entertainment Archive
16 November 2011, 07:00 AM ET
Water may not be the only liquid that can support life.
15 November 2011, 01:23 PM ET
The congresswoman said she wants to get better first.
11 November 2011, 10:34 AM ET
American Anousheh Ansari paid 20 million dollars for a trip to the international space station station, this is her story. Premieres on The Documentary Channel on November 13th at 8pm EST.
09 November 2011, 01:01 PM ET
When Apollo astronauts brought back moon rocks, they were puzzlingly magnetic.
08 November 2011, 10:25 AM ET
Animated look at the Phobos-Grunt mission, which aims to collect samples from the Martian moon Phobos and bring it back to Earth by 2014. Set to launch aboard a Zenit rocket on November 9th, 2011.
07 November 2011, 09:17 AM ET
Views from four orbiting telescopes - Chandra, Spitzer, XMM-Newton and WISE - have determined that RCW 86 was created by a Type 1a supernova explosion. This vibrant image of the remnant is a composite image.
04 November 2011, 11:29 AM ET
Asteroid 2005 YU55 is the size of an aircraft carrier and round, but won't hit the Earth.
04 November 2011, 06:26 AM ET
The multinational crew of the simulated trip to Mars and back complete their long mission. They spent a year and a half in hermetically sealed interconnected habitat modules conducting experiments and simulating a landing on the Red Planet.
03 November 2011, 02:49 PM ET
All the pulsars – with the exception of one found by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope – are a billion years old or more. A recent discovery has found one that is only 25 million years old and is still packing a lot of pulsing gamma-ray punch.
03 November 2011, 01:09 PM ET
Solar flares and huge explosions called coronal mass ejections are often associated with active regions.
02 November 2011, 05:39 PM ET
Love is in the air for two Chinese spacecraft.
31 October 2011, 02:51 PM ET
Strange clouds of dust near some supermassive black holes could come from smashed planets and asteroids.
24 October 2011, 02:01 PM ET
Astronomers have solved the mystery of how the first documented supernova occurred.
24 October 2011, 10:43 AM ET
The night sky above the 2600-metre-high Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert in Chile is dark and clear in this space wallpaper.
10 October 2011, 01:46 PM ET
Ex-astronaut Bill Oefelein skillfully steered a plane to the ground in rural Alaska after the aircraft stalled mid-flight.
06 October 2011, 11:08 AM ET
A Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SLB rocket successfully placed the Intelsat 18 telecommunications satellite into orbit on Oct. 6 from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome.
03 October 2011, 11:48 AM ET
See artist's concepts of future deep space flights with NASA's Space Exploration Vehicle.
29 September 2011, 06:00 AM ET
Learn more about China's first space laboratory, the Tiangong 1.
28 September 2011, 02:05 PM ET
A defunct German satellite is expected to fall to Earth in early November.
26 September 2011, 05:09 PM ET
Sunspot 1302 released a X1.9 category flare on September 24th, 2011. This has been a very active sunspot over the last few days, with multiple flares and coronal mass ejections recorded.
23 September 2011, 06:00 AM ET
NASA's doomed UARS satellite is expected to fall to Earth today.
19 September 2011, 01:10 PM ET
The National Reconnaissance Office just released video from codename Hexagon, a Cold War era spy-sat photo program. Twenty KeyHole "Big Birds" were launched from 1971 to 1986. Their resemblance to Hubble Space Telescope is not merely coincidental.
16 September 2011, 03:53 PM ET
NASA and its partners are assembling the world's most powerful telescope to launch in 2018.
14 September 2011, 09:31 AM ET
From the mighty Saturn 5 to NASA's new Space Launch System, see how the biggest rockets on Earth compare.
07 September 2011, 11:42 AM ET
Astronauts on the International Space Station spotted wildfires raging in Texas.
