Entertainment Archive
29 August 2011, 10:40 AM ET
See photos of Russia's Soyuz rocket and unmanned Progress 44 cargo ship crashed after a failed Aug. 24, 2011 launch.
22 August 2011, 01:54 PM ET
The Red Planet's dirt may be less inhospitable than scientists originally believed.
22 August 2011, 07:12 AM ET
NASA's Mars rover
17 August 2011, 12:09 PM ET
See NASA's most popular questions and answers about comet Elenin 2011 pass through the inner solar system.
28 July 2011, 12:59 PM ET
The Delta Aquarids and Alpha Capricornids are two summer meteor showers shining under a dark moon this weekend.
28 July 2011, 12:26 PM ET
A hybrid matter-antimatter particle was key to the success.
27 July 2011, 06:35 PM ET
Russian officials announced plans to plunge the International Space Station into the ocean at the end of its operational life.
26 July 2011, 05:47 PM ET
Bryan O'Connor wanted to see out the end of NASA's space shuttle program.
26 July 2011, 04:07 PM ET
See photos of Venus, a cloud-covered planet with an ultra-hot surface.
25 July 2011, 05:12 PM ET
Keeping humans alive and healthy on long-duration space missions is a major challenge.
25 July 2011, 10:01 AM ET
A look underneath the Sun's magnetic plasma in filtered light shows the correlation between bright solar active regions and their sunspot sources.
21 July 2011, 05:45 AM ET
The STS-135 crew landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center at 5:56am EDT on July 21, 2011. After thirty years of service, this marks the end of the storied career of the space shuttle program.
19 July 2011, 04:06 PM ET
Over the course of its life on Mars, the Spirit rover took 124,000+ images. Watch this compilation of amazing views and important discoveries from Gusev Crater on dry surface of the Red Planet.
18 July 2011, 03:37 PM ET
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up picture of the huge asteroid Vesta.
17 July 2011, 03:09 PM ET
A Delta 4 rocket blasted off in a spectacular night launch in Florida.
16 July 2011, 03:33 AM ET
A huge Proton rocket launched two new satellites into orbit Friday (July 15).
14 July 2011, 04:35 PM ET
As space flight advocates argue over whether the next manned mission should head to the Moon or Mars, many others wonder if human spaceflight has any future at all.
14 July 2011, 02:31 AM ET
Atlantis' four astronauts will enjoy some time off and a special meal today.
11 July 2011, 10:57 AM ET
One of the most mysterious planets in our solar system is the one that never actually formed.
08 July 2011, 04:21 PM ET
The final launch of NASA's space shuttle program left flight engineers scrambling for the right words — and wiping away tears.
07 July 2011, 03:01 PM ET
NASA's space shuttles have flown some peculiar and crazy objects into orbit, including a lightsaber from "Star Wars" and a vial of dirt from the pitcher's mound at Yankee Stadium."
05 July 2011, 04:08 PM ET
Space Shuttle derived technology and advancements include the artificial heart, better prosthetic limbs, cancer treating drugs, refined diagnostics and many other benefits on Earth. Narrated by Star Trek's William Shatner.
01 July 2011, 07:11 AM ET
Distant galaxies grew mostly by steadily ingesting gas, not dramatically merging with other galaxies.
26 June 2011, 12:49 AM ET
Choose your favorite space story from the last week.
17 June 2011, 01:12 PM ET
In reality, the ever-expanding universe is simply too large to the fictional Green Lantern Corps.





