News Archive
02 May 2013, 02:01 PM ET
Gravity waves, predicted by Einstein, have yet to be seen, but new advanced experiments are in the works.
02 May 2013, 02:01 PM ET
Many different types of exoplanets could potentially support life, MIT's Sara Seager says.
02 May 2013, 02:01 PM ET
NASA and the European Space Agency are doubling down in the search for alien planets.
02 May 2013, 02:01 PM ET
An alien planet orbits a star other than our sun, and is sometimes called an "exoplanet." Learn more about the types of alien planets, including exoplanets and extrasolar planets, and get the latest news.
02 May 2013, 02:00 PM ET
Super Earths are the most common planets in the solar system, but there are none around the sun.
02 May 2013, 01:48 PM ET
Grover the rover will inspect the apex of Greenland's ice sheet.
02 May 2013, 12:33 PM ET
Tests of the mysterious skeleton, believed by some to be an alien, have so far revealed only human DNA.
02 May 2013, 11:59 AM ET
This is Part Five in an eight-part series dissecting exoplanet science today
02 May 2013, 11:58 AM ET
Astrophotographer Tamas Ladanyi took this image of Orion over an ancient castle in Hungary.
02 May 2013, 11:05 AM ET
Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock return to action with a great new game hitting stores this week.
02 May 2013, 09:06 AM ET
The second man to walk on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin, thinks we should set our sights on the Red Planet. Buzz's new book 'Mission to Mars' explains his vision.
02 May 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Space station astronaut Chris Hadfield snapped a picture of a small puncture wound in one of the space station's solar arrays.
02 May 2013, 06:00 AM ET
A new photo shows hot young stars shining bright in a nebula 5,000 light-years away.
01 May 2013, 06:55 PM ET
The nine-year-old robot has resumed science operations on the Red Planet.
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, 05:13 PM ET
A trick of the moonlight might be to blame for the friendly fire that killed Jackson.
01 May 2013, 03:52 PM ET
A small, tight cloud about 5000 light years from Earth called NGC 6559 is home to glowing red hydrogen, scattered blue gas from recently born stars and dark dusty regions.
01 May 2013, 02:54 PM ET
Asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36 received the new moniker in a student naming contest.
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, 01:40 PM ET
See photos of NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid sampling mission, which launches in 2018.
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, 12:12 PM ET
Physicists have hunted for predicted gravitational waves without luck so far.
01 May 2013, 11:35 AM ET
An active region over the eastern limb of the Sun exploded plasma into Space. It was not directed towards us, but that active region is moving towards the Earth-facing side of the Sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the event on May 1st.
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.
