Science & Astronomy Archive
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.
15 May 2013, 09:09 AM ET
The X1.2 solar flare was the fourth X-class flare in two days from the sunspot AR1748.
15 May 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Two incredible new photos reveal hidden pieces of the Orion nebula in stark detail.
15 May 2013, 04:30 AM ET
The Mars Orbiting Space Telescope could help assess the Red Planet's potential to host life, advocates say.
15 May 2013, 04:20 AM ET
Scientists are taking a close look at a Mars-Orbiting Space Telescope concept. See how the idea would use an old spy satellite telescope donated to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office in this SPACE.com infographic.
14 May 2013, 05:40 PM ET
The faraway star cluster NGC 6496 is 10.5 billion years old and 32,600 light-years away.
14 May 2013, 05:15 PM ET
German photographer Reinhold Wittich captured this amazing image of the Pleiades star cluster.
14 May 2013, 04:49 PM ET
This fascinating space wallpaper shows galaxy cluster Abell S1077, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys.
14 May 2013, 03:11 PM ET
Astronomers using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile have exposed light from cold interstellar dust grains that are invisible to the human eye. The bright object is the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), an region of active star formation.
14 May 2013, 02:59 PM ET
AR1748 should be lined up with our planet by the weekend.
14 May 2013, 10:06 AM ET
The Sun erupted with 3 X-Class Flares (X1.7, X2.7, X3.2) during a one day period starting May 13th 2013. It was crackling with more flares before & after the most powerful ones. Can you determine how many flares recently named sunspot AR1748 tallied?
14 May 2013, 07:34 AM ET
See photos of the major X-class solar flares of May 2013 as seen by sun-watching spacecraft.
14 May 2013, 06:59 AM ET
The giant solar flare late Monday (May 13), the strongest yet of 2013, is the the third major sun storm in 24 hours.
14 May 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The orbital workshop was designed and built at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
