News Archive
04 June 2013, 06:37 AM ET
NASA's Fermi telescope has seen a possible signal of dark matter, but more data is needed.
04 June 2013, 06:31 AM ET
The models that predict the behavior of the early universe may also predict a multiverse beyond.
04 June 2013, 06:30 AM ET
Stars should be at least 8.7 percent as wide as our own sun, researchers say.
03 June 2013, 06:33 PM ET
With experience, teamwork and planning, Polish students created a winning prototype for future Mars rovers.
03 June 2013, 06:00 PM ET
NASA chief Charles Bolden suggests U.S. astronauts may tag along on other nations' future moon missions.
03 June 2013, 05:20 PM ET
Two white dwarfs called RX J0806.3+1527 or J0806 come together to create the smallest orbit of any known binary system (321.5 senconds, or less than 5 minutes). Gravitational wave energy increases as the two stars get closer.
03 June 2013, 05:04 PM ET
A star smaller than Jupiter regularly fires off flares as powerful as the biggest eruptions from our sun.
03 June 2013, 04:20 PM ET
Chris Hadfield is undergoing extensive health checks after returning from five months in orbit.
03 June 2013, 02:15 PM ET
The solar system lies in what's called the "Local Arm" of the Milky Way.
03 June 2013, 02:15 PM ET
Astronomers are witnessing a cosmic death on a galactic scale
03 June 2013, 02:03 PM ET
Rare chances to search for exoplanets around Proxima Centauri are coming in 2014 and 2016.
03 June 2013, 11:58 AM ET
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data reveals an abundance of hydrogen (think 'H2O') trapped at the south pole. The data strongly suggests frozen water. This supports earlier discoveries by Clementine (1994) and Lunar Prospector probes (1999).
03 June 2013, 11:36 AM ET
For over a decade, Europe's Mars Express has detected a wide range of minerals on the surface. Levels of olivine and pyroxene speak of volcanoes and ferric oxide whispers of water in the red dust. This global map refines future landing sites.
03 June 2013, 10:43 AM ET
New research sheds light on the moon quote controversy.
03 June 2013, 10:28 AM ET
New research on a bead from a burial ground in Egypt finds that it dates back to ~3350 BC (prior to the Egyptian iron age) and is rich in nickel, indicating a meteoritic origin.
03 June 2013, 10:15 AM ET
P/2010 A2's dust tail stretches nearly three times the distance from the Earth to the moon.
03 June 2013, 09:39 AM ET
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) will open a new eye on a mostly unexplored region of the Sun that drives the solar wind and brings 'hell-fire' to to the star's upper atmosphere. A launch in late June 2013 is expected.
03 June 2013, 07:00 AM ET
China aims to launch its fifth manned space mission as early June 7.
03 June 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The project will study how people can live and work together under stressful conditions.
03 June 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The planet could be the least massive planet observed outside of the solar system.
02 June 2013, 08:21 AM ET
From whacky anomalies on the moon to an asteroid's close call with Earth, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week.
01 June 2013, 10:05 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
31 May 2013, 07:07 PM ET
The purported Red Planet rodent even has its own Twitter account.
31 May 2013, 05:00 PM ET
1998 QE2 came within about 3.6 million miles of our planet this afternoon.
31 May 2013, 04:11 PM ET
SpaceX Senior Engineer Garrett Reisman (former NASA Shuttle astronaut) is helping to get the U.S. back into the manned spaceflight business. He is tasked with retrofitting the SpaceX rocket/capsule to carry humans.
