News Archive
18 June 2013, 04:41 PM ET
The online Slooh Space Camera will air a free Saturn show tonight at 11:45 p.m. EDT.
18 June 2013, 04:27 PM ET
Eight new astronaut candidates will report for training in Texas; four of them are women.
18 June 2013, 03:29 PM ET
The howling winds of Venus have gotten even faster lately, and scientists aren't sure why.
18 June 2013, 01:35 PM ET
NASA's planned manned mission to an asteroid is being tied to studying the threat from dangerous space rocks.
18 June 2013, 01:15 PM ET
A House Science space subcommittee bill would direct NASA astronauts back to the moon.
18 June 2013, 01:11 PM ET
It's possible that not a single known object meets the current criteria, one researcher says.
18 June 2013, 12:46 PM ET
Saturn teams up with two bright stars to form a celestial triangle this week.
18 June 2013, 12:04 PM ET
NASA’s eight new astronaut candidates share how they reacted to being selected.
18 June 2013, 11:00 AM ET
The online Slooh Space Camera is airing a free Saturn webcast tonight at 11:45 p.m. EDT.
18 June 2013, 09:53 AM ET
Lone Signal (lonesignal.com) is inviting the public to compose and transmit messages to selected stellar systems via the internet.
18 June 2013, 07:18 AM ET
See photos of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, and her iconic spaceflights.
18 June 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Artists can submit visions of future interstellar travel to the FarMaker Interstellar Speed Sketch 2013 contest.
18 June 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The Lone Signal project wants to send your notes out into the universe.
18 June 2013, 06:42 AM ET
NASA will provide an in-depth look at its ambitious asteroid-capture mission today in a series of briefings beginning at 9:30 a.m. ET (1330 GMT).
17 June 2013, 05:42 PM ET
See images of NASA's 2013 astronaut class, a mix of eight men and women that will become the next U.S. space travelers.
17 June 2013, 05:24 PM ET
The four-year-old infrared space observatory turned off for good.
17 June 2013, 03:48 PM ET
LEGO will produce a fan-built model of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity.
17 June 2013, 02:55 PM ET
Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, revealed the true cause of Yuri Gagarin's death.
17 June 2013, 02:34 PM ET
Laser shots that harness a million watts of power for about five one-billionths of a second were fired by MSL's ChemCam instrument into a soil target named 'Sutton Inlier'. Sixteen frames from the 20 minutes experiment are time-lapsed/looped.
17 June 2013, 02:28 PM ET
A methane-sniffing Mars orbiter is on track to launch in January 2016.
17 June 2013, 01:53 PM ET
The final installment in a 10-part series on exoplanet science today.
17 June 2013, 12:40 PM ET
The International Space Station has a new robotic resident.
17 June 2013, 10:55 AM ET
See infrared images of deep space from European Space Agency's prolific Herschel Space Telescope.
17 June 2013, 10:20 AM ET
NASA has picked its eight newest space travelers, the 2013 astronaut class, for future trips to asteroids and Mars.
17 June 2013, 10:06 AM ET
A star of low luminosity (called WX UMa) was seen growing brighter in matter of 160 seconds. It was recorded by astrophysicits at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and the Byurakan Observatory (Armenia) and is 15.6 light-years away.
