Science & Astronomy Archive
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.
24 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Astronomers hope the iconic telescope lasts through 2020.
24 April 2013, 12:45 AM ET
Test your knowledge about Hubble, which has revolutionized our understanding of the universe since its April 1990 launch.
24 April 2013, 12:07 AM ET
The bright spot located at the edge of the bluish fan-shaped structure in this cool space wallpaper is a young star called V* PV Cephei, or PV Cep.
24 April 2013, 12:00 AM ET
See amazing photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's iconic observatory in space.
23 April 2013, 05:42 PM ET
The galaxy is turning almost all its gas into baby stars.
23 April 2013, 03:00 PM ET
See photos of the comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), or Comet ISON, which could amaze the world in late 2013.
23 April 2013, 02:56 PM ET
Hubble snapped the new photos on April 10, when Comet ISON was 386 million miles from the sun.
23 April 2013, 01:03 PM ET
In the new movie "After Earth," Jaden Smith his father Will Smith team up to battle Earth in the far distant future.
23 April 2013, 09:49 AM ET
The first images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory were beamed back to Earth in the spring of 2010. Three years of observations are compiled, yielding valuable pattern information for understanding our local star.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA had been splitting costs with the U.S. Deparment of Energy.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Robots aren't yet capable of exploring the Red Planet's most promising environments.
22 April 2013, 11:49 PM ET
Astronomers have used ALMA to pinpoint the locations of more than 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early Universe. This fascinating space wallpaper shows close-ups of a selection of these galaxies.
