Science & Astronomy Archive
01 May 2013, 06:55 PM ET
The nine-year-old robot has resumed science operations on the Red Planet.
01 May 2013, 05:55 PM ET
Dark energy is a mysterious quantity that makes up, along with dark matter, most of the mass of the universe.
01 May 2013, 02:54 PM ET
Asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36 received the new moniker in a student naming contest.
01 May 2013, 01:56 PM ET
NASA's $690 million Fermi Space Telescope narrowly a head-on crash with a dead Russian satellite on April 3.
01 May 2013, 01:40 PM ET
See photos of NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid sampling mission, which launches in 2018.
01 May 2013, 01:28 PM ET
A neat trick for efficiently folding paper could be used to fold and unfurl sails used by cubesats hunting for meteoroids
01 May 2013, 12:15 PM ET
Scientists working with NASA's next alien planet hunting satellite are hosting a Google+ hang out today (May 1) at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT).
01 May 2013, 11:35 AM ET
An active region over the eastern limb of the Sun exploded plasma into Space. It was not directed towards us, but that active region is moving towards the Earth-facing side of the Sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the event on May 1st.
01 May 2013, 09:47 AM ET
An image of the J-34 engine showing icing after a flight.
01 May 2013, 09:30 AM ET
Photographer Terry Hancock of Fremont, Mich., captured this stunning view of the Horsehead Nebula on April 26.
01 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The prolific instrument may soon lose its ability to lock precisely onto target stars.
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield helped Canada launch a new $5 bill from orbit.
30 April 2013, 06:43 PM ET
In Friday's launch, a Soyuz rocket carried a Glonass satellite to orbit.
30 April 2013, 05:35 PM ET
X Prize and 'After Earth' have teamed up to challenge students to build a robot to explore another planet.
30 April 2013, 02:52 PM ET
A simple folding trick figured out with a paper and a pencil could be used to unfurl sails from cubesats to detect meteor impacts.
30 April 2013, 02:22 PM ET
Luna will be between the feet of the Gemini Twins, will pass by the Beehive Cluster, near the paws of the Leo the Lion and more. Find out what you can see as you follow the Moon in May.
30 April 2013, 12:30 PM ET
Each mosaic was stitched together using at least 20 images taken by the rover itself.
30 April 2013, 10:40 AM ET
The Slooh Space Camera will broadcast live views of Comet ISON in a webcast today (April 30).
30 April 2013, 09:24 AM ET
The Remote Controlled research staff and several of the lifting body models displayed with the radio controlled mothership.
30 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Star-forming regions in space could explain the ingredients of life on Earth.
29 April 2013, 05:00 PM ET
See what it was like to watch SpaceShipTwo soar in its first supersonic test flight.
29 April 2013, 03:18 PM ET
President Barack Obama restated his support for the sciences during an address today (April 29).
29 April 2013, 03:04 PM ET
The storm's eye spans a whopping 1,250 miles.
29 April 2013, 03:00 PM ET
The ISIS impactor would tag along with NASA's InSight mission to Mars.
29 April 2013, 01:07 PM ET
A planetary hurricane, with 300 mile per hour whipping winds, was snapped by NASA's Cassini mission. The eye of the storm is 1,250 miles wide, 20 times larger than any typhoon on Earth.
