News Archive
17 May 2013, 04:30 PM ET
A new video from a skywatcher in northern Michigan shows amazing views of the auroras and other cosmic wonders over the course of a year.
17 May 2013, 03:53 PM ET
Dream Chaser's first free-flight test is slated for later this year.
17 May 2013, 01:50 PM ET
Electric vehicles have no real competitors for the Martian market.
17 May 2013, 01:45 PM ET
Electric propulsion technology has matured to the point that NASA may consider it as part of a scheme to send people to Mars.
17 May 2013, 01:42 PM ET
The Mobile Science Lab flashes some complex moves to get rock samples from drill bit to baking chamber for chemical analysis (CHIMRA experiment).
17 May 2013, 01:41 PM ET
The eruption shouldn't pose a threat to Earth but may supercharge northern lights displays.
17 May 2013, 01:14 PM ET
In the new "Star Trek" film, the planet Nibiru is a lush, jungle planet.
17 May 2013, 12:26 PM ET
The agency must take a realist attitude to what can be done with little money, Bolden said.
17 May 2013, 11:05 AM ET
After a day of rest, active region 1748 unleashed class-M1.3 and M3.2 flares on May 16th and 17th, 2013. This same storm blasted 4 X-class flares between May 13 and 15.
17 May 2013, 10:11 AM ET
A new 65-foot-wide impact crater is the result.
17 May 2013, 09:16 AM ET
A NASA moon monitoring telescope captured the blast, which could be seen by the naked eye on Earth, on March 17th, 2013. The object was the size of a small boulder and may be part of a meteor swarm that also flew past Earth.
17 May 2013, 09:00 AM ET
In 'After Earth,' humanity is faced with a choice: Leave the planet, or die off trying to remain on it.
17 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The May 31 flyby of 1.7-mile-long 1998 QE2 poses no threat to Earth.
17 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
What we can learn from the greatest scientific mistakes in history.
17 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Images of electric spacecraft, which have explored the moon, Mars and beyond.
16 May 2013, 06:20 PM ET
Opportunity passed the Apollo 17 moon buggy, which covered 22.21 miles back in 1972.
16 May 2013, 06:03 PM ET
The new spacecraft will aid the network of navigation satellites.
16 May 2013, 04:33 PM ET
The Apollo engines are being restored in Kansas, and the public is invited to come see.
16 May 2013, 04:16 PM ET
By 2015 there'll be something green in space, and it won't be aliens!
16 May 2013, 03:54 PM ET
Astronauts on the ground and in space spoke with three actors from 'Star Trek Into Darkness' today during a NASA-sponsored Google+ Hangout.
16 May 2013, 03:33 PM ET
The mountains of the moon are visible for those that wish to see them this month.
16 May 2013, 01:00 PM ET
Inspiration Mars may use a SpaceX rocket, a pair of ULA boosters, or NASA's SLS.
16 May 2013, 12:42 PM ET
Astronomer Geoff Marcy tweaked W.H. Auden's poem to grieve for the troubled Kepler Space Telescope.
16 May 2013, 11:14 AM ET
NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg is a flight engineer on the Expedition 36/37 crew and in her down time will be hard at work with the fabric and thread she is bringing along. She is scheduled to launch to the ISS aboard a Soyuz TMA-09M on May 28th, 2013.
16 May 2013, 10:31 AM ET
Asteroid 1998 QE2 is about 1.7 miles in size and makes an excellent target for radar imaging. It will pass no closer than ~3.6 million miles, but is close enough for the Goldstone and Arecibo telescopes to resolve features as small as 12 feet across.
