Science & Astronomy Archive
19 May 2013, 07:06 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
18 May 2013, 10:29 AM ET
From snow falling on our largest telescopes to cool lunar vehicles in space, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week.
18 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA's Kepler has revolutionized exoplanet science, researchers say.
17 May 2013, 01:50 PM ET
Electric vehicles have no real competitors for the Martian market.
17 May 2013, 01:42 PM ET
The Mobile Science Lab flashes some complex moves to get rock samples from drill bit to baking chamber for chemical analysis (CHIMRA experiment).
17 May 2013, 01:41 PM ET
The eruption shouldn't pose a threat to Earth but may supercharge northern lights displays.
17 May 2013, 12:41 PM ET
This space wallpaper of the nebula NGC 3603 shows globules of gas and dust; giant, gaseous pillars; young stars surrounded by debris disks; aging, massive stars; and a blue supergiant star—all various stages in star life.
17 May 2013, 11:05 AM ET
After a day of rest, active region 1748 unleashed class-M1.3 and M3.2 flares on May 16th and 17th, 2013. This same storm blasted 4 X-class flares between May 13 and 15.
17 May 2013, 10:11 AM ET
A new 65-foot-wide impact crater is the result.
17 May 2013, 09:16 AM ET
A NASA moon monitoring telescope captured the blast, which could be seen by the naked eye on Earth, on March 17th, 2013. The object was the size of a small boulder and may be part of a meteor swarm that also flew past Earth.
17 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The May 31 flyby of 1.7-mile-long 1998 QE2 poses no threat to Earth.
17 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
What we can learn from the greatest scientific mistakes in history.
16 May 2013, 06:20 PM ET
Opportunity passed the Apollo 17 moon buggy, which covered 22.21 miles back in 1972.
16 May 2013, 04:50 PM ET
This dramatic space wallpaper reveals cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion showing what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky.
16 May 2013, 12:42 PM ET
Astronomer Geoff Marcy tweaked W.H. Auden's poem to grieve for the troubled Kepler Space Telescope.
16 May 2013, 10:31 AM ET
Asteroid 1998 QE2 is about 1.7 miles in size and makes an excellent target for radar imaging. It will pass no closer than ~3.6 million miles, but is close enough for the Goldstone and Arecibo telescopes to resolve features as small as 12 feet across.
16 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
In part six of this 10 part series, the panelists discuss the exciting possibilities of future missions that could uncover exoplanets.
16 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
A rundown of the prolific mission's most memorable finds to date.
16 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
There's a chance the prolific instrument could recover from its recent malfunction, officials say.
15 May 2013, 04:01 PM ET
More than 800 extrasolar planets have been discovered.
15 May 2013, 03:44 PM ET
The Kepler spacecraft has been a prolific exoplanet tool, but a mechanical failure has sealed its fate, NASA says.
15 May 2013, 01:50 PM ET
NSF's VLA radio-telescope watched a black hole ~100 million times our Sun's mass, blast two jets outward through its galaxy at over million miles per hour. This drags gas away from the black hole, making it go hungry.
15 May 2013, 01:01 PM ET
The winds on Uranus and Neptune blow in tight bands and aren't arent' very deep, scientists say.
15 May 2013, 11:19 AM ET
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has its eyes set on the sunspot that delivered X-Class flares from May 13-15, 2013. Close-Up views reveals x-ray flares interacting with the magnetic loops emitted from the Sunspot.
15 May 2013, 09:54 AM ET
This vivid space wallpaper shows a collection of 100,000 stars displayed in this small region inside the Omega Centauri globular cluster—a dense group of nearly 10 million stars. Omega Centauri is one of the biggest star clusters in the Milky Way.
