News Archive
06 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
German space photographer Reinhold Wittich snapped this breathtaking view of the Rosette Nebula in February 2011.
06 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Buzz Aldrin's new book 'Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration' lays out a plan to reach Mars by 2035.
05 May 2013, 11:37 AM ET
How to send people to the Red Planet by 2030 is the topic of a three-day summit this week.
05 May 2013, 09:05 AM ET
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks Sunday (May 5) and is created by bits of Halley's Comet.
05 May 2013, 09:03 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
04 May 2013, 10:07 AM ET
The sun fired off a dazzling solar eruption on Friday, May 3, after days of increased activity.
04 May 2013, 09:49 AM ET
Physicist Rhett Allain wonders what it would take for Europe's ATV cargo ships to build a Death Star.
04 May 2013, 08:40 AM ET
NASA will provide a live video view of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower Sunday (May 5) at 9 p.m. ET.
04 May 2013, 12:14 AM ET
From a 'bullet' hitting the ISS to a monster storm on Saturn, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week.
03 May 2013, 11:58 PM ET
After the London premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness, the reviews have started to come in.
03 May 2013, 03:24 PM ET
U.S. dependence on Russian spaceships could last beyond 2017 without full support, Charlie Bolden says.
03 May 2013, 01:57 PM ET
The Big Bear constellation is overhead now.
03 May 2013, 01:28 PM ET
Layers of gas on Saturn act as insulation, preventing heat from escaping.
03 May 2013, 11:33 AM ET
Bright constellations, galaxies and a globular cluster are on show in the night sky.
03 May 2013, 11:21 AM ET
The Vega rocket will launch on a complex mission to deploy satellites to two different orbits.
03 May 2013, 10:51 AM ET
The space agency picked four winning teams that participated online in last month's hackathon.
03 May 2013, 10:46 AM ET
The annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak this weekend, raining shards of Halley's Comet on Earth.
03 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
See photos of Chicago's historic Adler Planetarium located right on Lake Michigan.
03 May 2013, 05:56 AM ET
An iconic sight, a NASA space shuttle atop a 747 jumbo jet, will land at a Houston museum soon.
03 May 2013, 05:30 AM ET
A vat of water buried under Ontario hopes to find the elusive signal of dark matter.
03 May 2013, 05:30 AM ET
The list of possible uses is pretty long at this point.
03 May 2013, 05:19 AM ET
Scientists from IBM crafted photographs honoring "Star Trek" out of single atoms.
02 May 2013, 06:00 PM ET
Curiosity's month of freedom on the Red Planet is over.
02 May 2013, 04:11 PM ET
Canadarm 201 flew 23 times in space, including the second and final missions of the space shuttle program.
02 May 2013, 04:09 PM ET
It's unclear whether anyone can claim legal ownership of property in space.