Science & Astronomy Archive
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.
13 May 2013, 04:37 PM ET
Astronomers used a new method to discover a planet orbiting another star.
13 May 2013, 04:37 PM ET
Only three poems will be selected to ride on the Maven orbiter, which is slated to launch in November.
13 May 2013, 04:17 PM ET
The plankton blooms occur most springs.
13 May 2013, 04:11 PM ET
The all-sky and wide-field cameras at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama delivered 2 different angles on an incoming object during the Eta Aquarid meteor shower on May 8th, 2013.
13 May 2013, 02:34 PM ET
A brief rundown on solar flares, their classification and their potential impacts on Earth.
13 May 2013, 02:12 PM ET
NASA and the NSF are facing ambitious goals with slashed budgets.
13 May 2013, 02:07 PM ET
The first x-class flare (X1.7) of year was soon followed by a second more powerful X2.8-class flare, separated by about 14 hours on May 13th, 2013. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory had its eyes fixed on the show.
13 May 2013, 01:10 PM ET
The sun's unceasing activity affects our planet beyond providing obvious light and heat.
13 May 2013, 01:00 PM ET
See amazing photos of the sun during the peak of solar activity in 2013.
13 May 2013, 12:48 PM ET
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X-1.7-class flare on May 13th, 2013 and STEREO-B recorded the ensuing coronal mass ejection. -- As an added bonus, a massive prominence erupted from near the southwestern limb of the Sun.
13 May 2013, 12:48 PM ET
Launched on May 14, 1973, Skylab was the United States' first manned space station, allowing NASA to begin studying the effects of long term habitation in space and conduct research in zero gravity.
13 May 2013, 12:29 PM ET
The sun is firing off its strongest solar flares of the year as it edges closer to peak sun storm season.
13 May 2013, 10:22 AM ET
This space wallpaper is an illustration of the thin, rocky debris disc discovered around the two Hyades white dwarfs.
13 May 2013, 10:07 AM ET
An X1.7-class solar flare erupted on the eastern limb of the Sun, as seen from Earth, on May 13th, 2013. It is not Earth directed but the resulting coronal mass ejects is on course to hit NASA's Epoxi and Spitzer spacecraft on May 15th.
13 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
There may not be a lot of air, but there's still a lot of weather in space. Get the latest news of space weather and solar flares here from SPACE.com.
13 May 2013, 06:29 AM ET
The sun unleashed a Mother's Day solar flare on May 12, sparking an X1.7-class sun eruption.
