News Archive
29 April 2013, 01:19 PM ET
Virgin Galactic's suborbital vehicle makes its first powered ascent on April 29, 2013. Exceeding Mach 1, but not (yet) trying for 'space' altitude, the test was deemed successful by the shipbuilder Scaled Composites.
29 April 2013, 11:31 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo fired its rocket motor for 16 seconds in the historic April 29, 2013 test flight.
29 April 2013, 11:19 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo fired up its rocket motor in flight for the 1st time on April 29, 2013. See the photos.
29 April 2013, 11:00 AM ET
SpaceShipTwo is expected to take paying customers into space around 2015.
29 April 2013, 10:47 AM ET
ISS commander Chris Hadfield explains how astronauts stay hydrated and why Space Station must try to recycle everything.
29 April 2013, 06:50 AM ET
Veteran skywatcher P-M Heden captured this amazing night sky photo of Comet PanSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy over rural Sweden.
29 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Comet ISON's trail of dust could pass through the Earth's atmosphere creating an unusual meteor shower.
28 April 2013, 10:30 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
28 April 2013, 10:25 AM ET
The Slooh Space Camera will offer live views of Comet ISON tonight (April 30) at 5:00 pm ET (2100 GMT). Here's how to see the possible 'comet of the century.'
27 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Telescopes in the Canary Islands will broadcast a live view.
26 April 2013, 04:32 PM ET
Lowell Observatory is best known for the discovery of Pluto. Astronomers there have also studied Halley's Comet and discovered an exoplanet in 2007.
26 April 2013, 03:05 PM ET
China launches its first high-resolution earth-observation satellite. Sarah Sheffer reports.
26 April 2013, 02:12 PM ET
Chris Hadfield shows the world how to barf on the International Space Station.
26 April 2013, 01:50 PM ET
The small satellite is called HiakaSat.
26 April 2013, 01:01 PM ET
The original Enterprise-D's bridge was blown up in Star Trek: Generations, but in the late 1990's a duplicate was made by Paramount. Its parts was taken off the scrap heap and there is hope to create it into an interactive experience.
26 April 2013, 12:14 PM ET
The retired space shuttle is being readied for exhibition at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center.
26 April 2013, 12:12 PM ET
The video offers an unprecedented glimpse of the sun's activity as it waxes and wanes.
26 April 2013, 09:59 AM ET
A Russian Progress cargo capsule successfully delivered more than 3 tons of supplies to the International Space Station today (April 26).
26 April 2013, 09:37 AM ET
Gianluca Mais, host of the Virtual Telescope Project eclipse webcast (virtualtelescope.eu) provided this view of Earth's shadow mingling with the Moon's terrain on April 25th, 2013.
26 April 2013, 09:00 AM ET
Chris Hadfield beamed down an experiment to a group of kids in Canada.
26 April 2013, 06:58 AM ET
Saturn will be at its best and brightest in the predawn sky on Sunday (April 28). Here's how to see Saturn at opposition.
26 April 2013, 06:30 AM ET
The astronomer will talk about searching for intelligent alien civilizations during a presentation at PayPal HQ in San Jose.
26 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
A high-altitude balloon should offer unique perspectives on Comet ISON, researchers say.
26 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The name won a contest organized by space-funding company Uwingu.
25 April 2013, 06:24 PM ET
A partial lunar eclipse amazed skywatchers around the world today (April 25).
