Science & Astronomy Archive
07 March 2013, 06:00 PM ET
Wernher von Braun led the development of the rockets that carried the first Americans into space and onto the moon.
07 March 2013, 02:01 PM ET
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radar to find the underground Martian channels.
07 March 2013, 02:00 PM ET
Impacts may have delivered the complex molecules needed for life to get started.
07 March 2013, 12:38 PM ET
Jerry Ross believes NASA's Orion program is progressing too slowly. He has logged the most flight hours between Space Shuttle and Space Station.
07 March 2013, 09:16 AM ET
Two mechanics pose with Langley's first wind tunnel.
06 March 2013, 06:23 PM ET
The $100 million space shuttle Atlantis exhibit will open on June 29 in Florida.
06 March 2013, 05:42 PM ET
The last piece of cargo was unloaded from the Dragon space capsule today.
06 March 2013, 05:18 PM ET
Comet Elenin was a minor comet that caused major doomsday rumors on Earth, even after it broke up after a solar storm.
06 March 2013, 03:24 PM ET
Camera will monitor environmental issues around globe.
06 March 2013, 11:55 AM ET
The Milky Way's central black hole is in for a tasty treat.
06 March 2013, 11:51 AM ET
Jerry Ross has logged the most flight hours between Space Shuttle and Space Station and has deep concerns over handing the keys over to private space companies to deliver crew to the International Space Station.
06 March 2013, 11:45 AM ET
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin prepare for their final exams before their scheduled trip to the International Space Station on March 28th aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.
06 March 2013, 11:10 AM ET
Comet Pan-STARRS is currently the brightest comet in the night sky in recent years, but only the opening act for 2013.
06 March 2013, 09:01 AM ET
The experimental aircraft pictured in a circling flight path on Rogers Dry Lakedbed.
06 March 2013, 06:40 AM ET
Europa's ocean seems to have contact with the surface, making all sorts of chemical reactions possible.
06 March 2013, 06:40 AM ET
The Dragon capsule brought many new science experiments to the space station.
06 March 2013, 06:35 AM ET
NASA's Messenger probe snapped photos of 100 percent of the planet's surface.
05 March 2013, 10:43 PM ET
Asteroid 2013 ET is about the size of a football field.
05 March 2013, 04:33 PM ET
Comet Pan-STARRS and Comet Lemmon were captured together in stunning night sky photos.
05 March 2013, 02:43 PM ET
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has entered eclipse season, where the Earth is blocking the Sun from the spacecraft's vantage point. Shortly after the Sun was in full view again, an M1.2 flare popped from Earth-facing sunspot AR1686.
05 March 2013, 02:39 PM ET
This remarkable space wallpaper was created from pictures taken by different telescopes in space and on the ground. It shows the thousand-year-old remnant of the brilliant SN 1006 supernova, as seen in radio (red), X-ray (blue) and visible light (yellow).
05 March 2013, 10:44 AM ET
The online Slooh Space Camera will offer a live webcast of the sun at 2:30 p.m. ET (1930 GMT) today.
05 March 2013, 10:30 AM ET
Our star's current lull may just be the calm between two storms.
05 March 2013, 10:27 AM ET
A distant galaxy spotted by the Hubble Telescope looks like an alien.
05 March 2013, 10:16 AM ET
Galaxy cluster Abell 68 (hundreds of billions of stars forming a swarm of galaxies) creates gravitational lens stretching appearance normal spiral galaxy's image to resemble the classic '80's game character. The effect was predicted by Einstein.
