Science & Astronomy Archive
10 April 2013, 10:19 AM ET
The European Space Agency opened a new space weather center last week in Brussels to keep tabs on solar storms.
10 April 2013, 10:00 AM ET
A look at some of the space rocks that could threaten Earth someday.
10 April 2013, 09:33 AM ET
Scientists have new evidence that the Chicxulub impact set the world's forests ablaze.
10 April 2013, 09:31 AM ET
Europe's Very Large Telescope captured imagery of planetary nebula IC 1295. It can be found in the constellation of Scutum (3300 light years away).
10 April 2013, 07:38 AM ET
Asteroids are small, airless rocky worlds that revolve around the sun and are too small to be called planets. They are also called space rocks, planetoids or minor planets.
10 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA is expected to receive $100 million for an ambitious asteroid-retrieval mission.
10 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The mission is challenging but achievable, experts say.
10 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
A green planetary nebula shines ghoulishly in deep space.
09 April 2013, 03:31 PM ET
Astronomers have caught a black hole snacking on what may be a free-flying giant planet.
09 April 2013, 03:16 PM ET
NASA's planetary science projects may lose some or all of hard-won $200 million budget increase.
09 April 2013, 02:54 PM ET
Cosmic radiation from space travel may increase the risk of colon cancer.
09 April 2013, 01:53 PM ET
Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, has a wispy oxygen atmosphere.
09 April 2013, 01:29 PM ET
This space wallpaper reveals Galaxy 2MASX J09442693+0429569 imaged by Hubble. This elliptical galaxy has entered a transitional phase from a young, star-forming galaxy to an older, larger, "red and dead" galaxy.
09 April 2013, 11:23 AM ET
Spending more money won’t help in detecting small space rocks, one scientist insists.
09 April 2013, 10:03 AM ET
An entangled photon could be beamed to the International Space Station.
09 April 2013, 09:54 AM ET
NASA is funding two projects to search for exoplanets and has enlisted some the help of two big-name partners.
09 April 2013, 06:30 AM ET
No commands will be sent to all four active NASA Mars explorers for the next few weeks.
09 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
This is part two in an eight part series exploring exoplanet science today.
09 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The night sky view from Chile's Atacama Desert offers stunning views of Southern Hemisphere constellations.
08 April 2013, 06:50 PM ET
The solar panels will experience 16 “sunrises” each day as part of a harsh performance test.
08 April 2013, 04:21 PM ET
The new results from NASA's Curiosity rover bolster longstanding suspicions about the Red Planet's air.
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, 03:29 PM ET
See eye-popping photos of the night sky by submitted by SPACE.com readers in April 2013.
08 April 2013, 03:26 PM ET
The zodiacal constellation Cancer is visible high toward the south night sky.
08 April 2013, 03:00 PM ET
Astrophotographer Reinhold Wittich snapped this gorgeous image of Orion Nebula M42 from Germany.
