News Archive
01 May 2013, 06:55 PM ET
The nine-year-old robot has resumed science operations on the Red Planet.
01 May 2013, 06:03 PM ET
Dark matter emits no light, and cannot be directly observed, but scientists think that it and dark energy make up most of the mass of the universe.
01 May 2013, 05:26 PM ET
The video by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals a colossal plasma wave on the sun.
01 May 2013, 05:18 PM ET
See photos that helped astronomy detectives solve the mystery of 'Stonewall' Jackson's death during the Civil War in 1863.
01 May 2013, 02:54 PM ET
Asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36 received the new moniker in a student naming contest.
01 May 2013, 02:40 PM ET
This fascinating space wallpaper reveals a notional concept of a solar-electric-powered spacecraft, designed to capture a small near-Earth asteroid and relocate it safely close to the Earth-moon system so astronauts can explore it.
01 May 2013, 01:56 PM ET
NASA's $690 million Fermi Space Telescope narrowly a head-on crash with a dead Russian satellite on April 3.
01 May 2013, 01:28 PM ET
A neat trick for efficiently folding paper could be used to fold and unfurl sails used by cubesats hunting for meteoroids
01 May 2013, 12:15 PM ET
Scientists working with NASA's next alien planet hunting satellite are hosting a Google+ hang out today (May 1) at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT).
01 May 2013, 09:47 AM ET
An image of the J-34 engine showing icing after a flight.
01 May 2013, 09:38 AM ET
A cold war era satellite (Kosmos 1805) and NASA's Fermi spacecraft came within 30 milliseconds of occupying the same space. This caused lots of angst at NASA over a spring weekend in 2012.
01 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The prolific instrument may soon lose its ability to lock precisely onto target stars.
01 May 2013, 06:00 AM ET
A meteor shower, galaxies and eclipses are just a few things to look forward to in the month of May.
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield helped Canada launch a new $5 bill from orbit.
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
The Long March rocket's primary payload was a high-resolution Chinese Earth-observation satellite.
30 April 2013, 06:43 PM ET
In Friday's launch, a Soyuz rocket carried a Glonass satellite to orbit.
30 April 2013, 03:24 PM ET
The Chandra X-ray Telescope has spied a gas cloud with the mass of ~10 billion Suns and spans ~300,00O light years. The system called NGC 6240 is the scene of two milky way-sized galaxies merging.
30 April 2013, 03:21 PM ET
Mars was formed from smaller pieces of rock than those that formed Jupiter, a new study concludes.
30 April 2013, 02:19 PM ET
That's about $8 million more than the previous going rate.
30 April 2013, 01:27 PM ET
See sky maps for the most promising night sky events of May 2013.
30 April 2013, 12:30 PM ET
Each mosaic was stitched together using at least 20 images taken by the rover itself.
30 April 2013, 10:55 AM ET
ESA's Herschel Space Telescope peers deep into the universe.
30 April 2013, 10:40 AM ET
The Slooh Space Camera will broadcast live views of Comet ISON in a webcast today (April 30).
30 April 2013, 10:38 AM ET
After four years in orbit, the Herschel Space Telescope has reached the end of its life.
30 April 2013, 09:24 AM ET
The Remote Controlled research staff and several of the lifting body models displayed with the radio controlled mothership.
