Science & Astronomy Archive
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.
25 April 2013, 02:01 PM ET
A fast, dense pulsar with a white dwarf companion offered a unique test.
25 April 2013, 11:50 AM ET
Night sky photographer Bob Andersson captured this amazing photo of the Soul Nebula.
25 April 2013, 11:49 AM ET
A hyper-dense spinning neutron and its rapidly orbiting companion white dwarf star seem to support Einstein’s General Relativity model of gravity under extreme conditions where the theory might have broken down.
25 April 2013, 09:09 AM ET
The heat from newborn stars creates a halo of gas around its parent galaxy. When a distant galaxy's black hole-powered light is absorbed by the gas, the Hubble Space Telescope's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) can detect it.
25 April 2013, 09:01 AM ET
Starburst galaxies create an intense galactic wind that affects future star formation.
24 April 2013, 06:55 PM ET
See amazing views of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which snaps HD solar photos 24/7.
24 April 2013, 05:59 PM ET
The three solar eruptions may deal a glancing blow to NASA's Messenger spacecraft at Mercury.
24 April 2013, 04:32 PM ET
The photo shows the Spirit Mars rover's efforts to turn around, not amuse its handlers.
24 April 2013, 03:52 PM ET
Find out how Hubble has stayed on the cutting edge of deep-space astronomy for the past 20 years.
24 April 2013, 03:33 PM ET
The moons of Saturn — 62 in all — come in a variety of sizes and compositions.
24 April 2013, 02:37 PM ET
The names still have to be accepted by the International Astronomical Union.
24 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Two Antarctic meteorites contain sand grains that likely come from a single supernova.
