Science & Astronomy Archive
23 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Weather concerns pushed the Dragon capsule's homecoming back one day.
22 March 2013, 04:43 PM ET
The move is a response to the arrest of a former contractor suspected of spying for China.
22 March 2013, 02:54 PM ET
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped imagery of the eruption on March 16, 2013. The entire event took a little under 4 hours. An extreme ultraviolet light sensing camera was used.
22 March 2013, 07:06 AM ET
See amazing photos of the Comet Pan-STARRS and the crescent moon from March 12, 2013.
22 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Comets are like snowflakes — no two are alike.
21 March 2013, 06:52 PM ET
The moon's orbit brings it 6 feet closer to the red planet every century.
21 March 2013, 06:48 PM ET
Deimos' radius is only 3.9 miles. The tiny moon zips around Mars in only 30 hours and is so close to its parent planet that it was missed for centuries.
21 March 2013, 06:18 PM ET
Some parts of the moon haven't seen the sun in millions, and even billions, of years but NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is shedding light on these permanently shadowed regions.
21 March 2013, 05:46 PM ET
The broadcast came from the SCORE satellite in 1958.
21 March 2013, 04:45 PM ET
The earliest light of the universe doesn't look exactly as predicted.
21 March 2013, 04:10 PM ET
The newest Landsat satellite has opened its eyes.
21 March 2013, 09:54 AM ET
The European Space Agency's Planck observatory created the map by measuring the cosmic microwave background.
21 March 2013, 09:50 AM ET
A NASA technician inspects a transport model between wind tunnel tests at Langley.
21 March 2013, 07:37 AM ET
See photos and images from the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft built to map faint radiation from the Big Bang.
21 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Fragments of the Feb. 15 meteor explosion over Russia have made their way into the hands of U.S. scientists.
21 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Located about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia, the heart nebula is a mix of gas and dark dust.
20 March 2013, 03:03 PM ET
Astronaut Fred Haise was assigned to two Apollo missions where he would have walked on the moon, but he never made it there.
20 March 2013, 01:56 PM ET
John Glenn and Scott Carpenter won Explorers Club medals.
20 March 2013, 01:10 PM ET
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to raise sunken Apollo 11 moon rocket engines from the ocean floor. Learn more about the Saturn V rocket's F-1 engines in this SPACE.com infographic.
20 March 2013, 01:02 PM ET
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 probes launched in 1977 to visit the outer planets of the solar system. After 35 years in space, the twin probes are approaching the edge of our solar system.
20 March 2013, 12:45 PM ET
Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
20 March 2013, 10:23 AM ET
The new SBIRS GEO-2 satellite is the second next-generation missile defense satellite for the U.S. Air Force.
20 March 2013, 09:52 AM ET
This half-scale test craft was pre-flighted by being carried on a truck.
20 March 2013, 05:40 AM ET
NASA science chief John Grunsfeld and planetary division head Jim Green turned to Skype due to budget cuts.
19 March 2013, 04:48 PM ET
The Astro Drone App created by ESA's Advanced Concepts Team allows you to turn your smartphone or tablet controlled drone into a virtual spacecraft.
