Science & Astronomy Archive
29 April 2013, 05:41 PM ET
A wormhole is a theoretical passage through space-time that could create shortcuts for long journeys across the universe.
29 April 2013, 03:50 PM ET
See amazing photos of the strange hexagon storm at Saturn's north pole.
29 April 2013, 03:18 PM ET
President Barack Obama restated his support for the sciences during an address today (April 29).
29 April 2013, 03:04 PM ET
The storm's eye spans a whopping 1,250 miles.
29 April 2013, 03:00 PM ET
The ISIS impactor would tag along with NASA's InSight mission to Mars.
29 April 2013, 02:08 PM ET
This space wallpaper is an artist’s impression showing the exotic double object that consists of a tiny, but very heavy neutron star that spins 25 times each second, orbited every two and a half hours by a white dwarf star.
29 April 2013, 01:07 PM ET
A planetary hurricane, with 300 mile per hour whipping winds, was snapped by NASA's Cassini mission. The eye of the storm is 1,250 miles wide, 20 times larger than any typhoon on Earth.
29 April 2013, 06:50 AM ET
Veteran skywatcher P-M Heden captured this amazing night sky photo of Comet PanSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy over rural Sweden.
29 April 2013, 06:45 AM ET
The half-frozen, half-oceanic worlds might be good places to look for alien life.
29 April 2013, 06:45 AM ET
Lunokhod 1 last trekked across the lunar surface more than four decades ago.
29 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Comet ISON's trail of dust could pass through the Earth's atmosphere creating an unusual meteor shower.
28 April 2013, 10:30 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
27 April 2013, 08:06 AM ET
From the glowing pink moon to a recycling galaxy, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week.
26 April 2013, 04:32 PM ET
Lowell Observatory is best known for the discovery of Pluto. Astronomers there have also studied Halley's Comet and discovered an exoplanet in 2007.
26 April 2013, 03:25 PM ET
Science generally describes time as an illusion.
26 April 2013, 12:12 PM ET
The video offers an unprecedented glimpse of the sun's activity as it waxes and wanes.
26 April 2013, 11:29 AM ET
This beautiful space wallpaper shows a sunset at Concordia research station in Antarctica. The wooden platforms are for observation posts for astronomers. At the southern tip of the world Concordia receives no sunlight for around four months each year.
26 April 2013, 07:40 AM ET
NASA's Messenger and Stereo-A space probes were not affected by three back-to-back solar storms, scientists say.
26 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
A high-altitude balloon should offer unique perspectives on Comet ISON, researchers say.
26 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The name won a contest organized by space-funding company Uwingu.
25 April 2013, 06:04 PM ET
NASA's 2014 would effectively cut planetary science funding by more than $200 million.
25 April 2013, 06:00 PM ET
This is part four in an eight-part series dissecting exoplanet science today.
25 April 2013, 02:52 PM ET
Saturn will be the closer to Earth the night of April 28th than at any time in 2013, what astronomers call an 'opposition' because the ringed giant and the sun will be on opposite sides of the Earth, making it a great opportunity to view the planet.
25 April 2013, 02:35 PM ET
This stunning space wallpaper shows a patchwork network of frozen ridges and troughs that cover the face of Enceladus, Saturn’s most enigmatic of icy moons.
25 April 2013, 02:01 PM ET
A new study has found that plumes of dust in Saturn's rings were caused by impact events.
