News Archive
08 April 2013, 03:56 PM ET
The Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope has detected young stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) - one of the our closest galactic neighbors. The x-rays were emitted from the SMC region known as the 'Wing'.
08 April 2013, 03:26 PM ET
The zodiacal constellation Cancer is visible high toward the south night sky.
08 April 2013, 01:41 PM ET
NASA administrator Charles Bolden does not think the space agency should focus on visiting the moon again.
08 April 2013, 10:15 AM ET
The director of the Lewis Research Center addresses the importance and uses of nuclear propulsion.
08 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Progress made over the next year will determine whether the Mission for America gets off the ground in 2018.
08 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NWA 7325 may be too old to have plausibly come from the solar system's innermost planet.
07 April 2013, 01:00 PM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
05 April 2013, 06:52 PM ET
The actor has said he's considering buying a ticket to space.
05 April 2013, 06:31 PM ET
One mission will hunt Earth-like alien planets, while the other will probe the secrets of neutron stars.
05 April 2013, 05:16 PM ET
The money should jump-start an ambitious program to send astronauts to a space rock in 2021.
05 April 2013, 04:48 PM ET
Hydrogen peroxide could be an energy source for life, if it exists in Europa's underground ocean.
05 April 2013, 04:39 PM ET
The risky mission took the small satellite dangerously close to Jupiter's surface and through Saturn's outer rings.
05 April 2013, 04:22 PM ET
The world's largest vacuum chamber is ready for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
05 April 2013, 04:04 PM ET
On April 5th, 1973 the Pioneer 11 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral on what was originally a back up mission for the Pioneer 10. Eventually NASA made an ambitious mid-mission change to Pioneer 11's trajectory, sending it to Saturn & beyond.
05 April 2013, 03:59 PM ET
You can see all but a few of the 110 Messier objects in a single night this weekend.
05 April 2013, 10:14 AM ET
Space weapons may have been conceived in the realm of science fiction, but they have since crept closer toward science fact. President Barack Obama has proposed a ban on space weapons in the United States, but other countries are taking active roles in ta
05 April 2013, 09:47 AM ET
This non-flying, full-scale version of the HL-20 lifting body was used for various tests of maintainability and human factors considerations.
05 April 2013, 06:30 AM ET
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has spotted an ultradense dead star bending the light of its larger companion.
05 April 2013, 06:30 AM ET
Pyongyang's missiles aren't powerful or reliable enough at the moment, experts say.
05 April 2013, 06:30 AM ET
The hundreds of volcanoes on Io are farther east than they're supposed to be.
04 April 2013, 04:20 PM ET
The United States announces it will send a missile defense system to Guam to defend the Pacific Ocean island from North Korea, as the US military adjusts to what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called a 'real and clear danger' from Pyongyang. Mana Rabi
04 April 2013, 03:14 PM ET
Lightning triggered the blaze on Monday, April 1, according to media reports.
04 April 2013, 03:12 PM ET
This thin, glittering streak of stars seen in this space wallpaper is the spiral galaxy ESO 121-6, which lies in the southern constellation of Pictor (The Painter's Easel).
04 April 2013, 02:49 PM ET
Alan Bean walked on the moon during Apollo 12. He turned to painting to chronicle his experiences.
04 April 2013, 02:44 PM ET
Richard F. "Dick" Gordon orbited the moon on Apollo 12. Earlier, he helped astronauts learn how to spacewalk.
