News Archive
20 March 2013, 10:29 AM ET
Astronomers have spotted a star in our galaxy that races around a black hole at a breakneck speed, orbiting once every 2.4 hours.
20 March 2013, 10:23 AM ET
The new SBIRS GEO-2 satellite is the second next-generation missile defense satellite for the U.S. Air Force.
20 March 2013, 06:21 AM ET
The space-funding company Uwingu wants a more exciting name for Alpha Centauri Bb.
20 March 2013, 05:40 AM ET
Titan's northern seas could have winds raging as high as 44 miles an hour.
20 March 2013, 05:40 AM ET
NASA science chief John Grunsfeld and planetary division head Jim Green turned to Skype due to budget cuts.
19 March 2013, 05:27 PM ET
See photos of the March 19, 2013 launch of the SBIRS GEO-2 missile defense satellite by the U.S. military.
19 March 2013, 04:18 PM ET
NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy, lies about 35 million light-years away in the Constellation Eridanus. In 1999, the Lick Observatory detected a new supernova in this galaxy. A study of its aftermath with Europe's Very Large Telescope delivered this image.
19 March 2013, 03:31 PM ET
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the tiny craters made by the Grail moon probes.
19 March 2013, 03:29 PM ET
NASA's chief said budget cuts limited the agency's ability to track possibly dangerous asteroids.
19 March 2013, 02:01 PM ET
The Department of Energy has made its first plutonium-238 in a quarter century.
19 March 2013, 01:51 PM ET
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was tasked with monitoring the impact of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission probes into the surface of the Moon. The orbiter's LAMP instrument detected the dust plumes.
19 March 2013, 12:42 PM ET
If you've got a Parrot AR.Drone quadcopter, you can improve the abilities of future space robots through a new gaming app called AstroDrone.
19 March 2013, 10:37 AM ET
Contractor may have had access to high-level imaging technology with potential military uses.
19 March 2013, 10:23 AM ET
A researcher considers the first full-scale airplane tested in the Propeller Research Tunnel.
19 March 2013, 09:30 AM ET
All rocky exoplanets likely host oceans of liquid water shortly after they form, one prominent researcher says.
18 March 2013, 06:31 PM ET
Though Jupiter is shrouded in swirling clouds, its atmosphere has some mysterious clear patches that scientists call 'hot spots.'
18 March 2013, 05:53 PM ET
Many people associate the first day of spring with March 21, not March 20.
18 March 2013, 03:39 PM ET
The new SBIRS GEO-2 satellite is the latest addition to the U.S. military's missile defense grid.
18 March 2013, 03:18 PM ET
A minor computer error has sent Curiosity back into safe mode.
18 March 2013, 01:46 PM ET
Satellite spies the aftermath of a recent eruption at a Russian volcano.
18 March 2013, 01:42 PM ET
The 3-mile-high Mount Sharp is Curiosity's ultimate destination.
18 March 2013, 01:30 PM ET
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is beaming home amazing photos of the Red Planet.
18 March 2013, 10:32 AM ET
Nearly 2,000 scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this week will reveal the latest finds on the moon, Mars and the solar system.
18 March 2013, 09:34 AM ET
Gone are the days of dreaming of little green men on the Red Planet.
18 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
526 people helped break the Guinness World Record for the largest outdoor astronomy lesson by NASA.
