Science & Astronomy Archive
22 April 2013, 05:38 PM ET
Don't miss your chance to see live views of the Lyrid meteor shower tonight (April 22).
22 April 2013, 05:11 PM ET
Astronomers start a month-long campaign to observe the ringed beauty of a planet.
22 April 2013, 02:15 PM ET
The private Mars One project officially launched its search for astronauts to colonize the Red Planet.
22 April 2013, 09:33 AM ET
The parafoil undergoes testing in the world's largest wind tunnel.
22 April 2013, 08:03 AM ET
Ever wonder what a city would look like among the stars?
22 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Important cultural artifacts aren't restricted to our home planet, researchers say.
22 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
A bold Mars flyby slated for 2018 will make its closest approach on Mars' night side.
21 April 2013, 07:34 AM ET
The new Antares rocket will launch at 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
21 April 2013, 06:10 AM ET
The annual Lyrid shower will peak in the late night hours of Sunday (April 21) and early Monday (April 22).
20 April 2013, 04:45 PM ET
Orbital Sciences will try to launch its Antares rocket again Sunday.
20 April 2013, 08:43 AM ET
Orbital Sciences will launch its Antares rocket test flight today at 6:10 p.m. EDT.
20 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Astronomers will webcast live views of Saturn's auroras from Hawaii's Keck Observatory on Sunday, April 21.
19 April 2013, 06:38 PM ET
This stunning space wallpaper shows the youngest-known supernova remnant in our galaxy, which lies 10,000 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. The light from this exploding star first reached Earth in the 1600s.
19 April 2013, 11:27 AM ET
The telescope's image shows the famous Horsehead Nebula in a whole new light.
19 April 2013, 11:23 AM ET
Expedition 35 flight engineers Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko worked outside the International Space Station on April 19, 2013.
19 April 2013, 06:50 AM ET
Russia's new Bion-M spacecraft will send small animals and microorganisms into space for research.
19 April 2013, 05:45 AM ET
The Mars rover Curiosity, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory, will launch in late 2011 and land on the Red Planet in August 2012.
18 April 2013, 05:43 PM ET
If Kepler-62e and f are covered by global oceans, they may host a variety of aquatic lifeforms.
18 April 2013, 02:37 PM ET
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered three new possibly habitable super-Earth planets.
18 April 2013, 02:01 PM ET
All three may be capable of supporting life as we know it, scientists say.
18 April 2013, 06:23 AM ET
NASA will announce new results from the Kepler space telescope in a news conference Thursday (April 18).
18 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
See amazing artists' illustrations of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler spacecraft.
18 April 2013, 05:09 AM ET
The Orbital Sciences Antares rocket could launch from Virginia on Friday (April 19) at 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT).
18 April 2013, 05:00 AM ET
Sex in space could present some challenges, but that won't stop people from trying.
17 April 2013, 05:06 PM ET
The next chance to launch the Antares rocket may come Thursday at 5 p.m. EDT.
