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27 May 2012, 09:41 AM ET
From complete coverage of SpaceX historic flight to your favorite photos of the solar eclipse, it's been a busy week in space.
27 May 2012, 07:36 AM ET
See amazing images of the annular solar eclipse, the SpaceX capsule landing on the ISS and more in the best photos for the week of May 27, 2012.
25 May 2012, 05:13 PM ET
The two countries were vying for the right to host the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope.
25 May 2012, 05:32 AM ET
Aliens advanced enough to visit Earth probably wouldn't need anything from us, Jill Tarter says.
25 May 2012, 05:00 AM ET
NASA asked for help in reformulating its Mars exploration strategy. Boy did it get it.
24 May 2012, 02:00 PM ET
The strange Medusae Fossae Formation may be 2 billion years older than previously thought.
24 May 2012, 02:00 PM ET
Organic molecules in Mars meteorites did not originate in alien microbes.
24 May 2012, 01:05 PM ET
See images of the Transit of Venus across the sun as witnessed by people throughout history.
24 May 2012, 12:38 PM ET
Researchers have successfully cloaked an object in free space with the help of supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
24 May 2012, 08:00 AM ET
A rare sight — a woman physicist at the NASA Lewis Research Center.
24 May 2012, 06:44 AM ET
NASA's Cassini probe is preparing to tilt its orbit around Saturn dramatically.
24 May 2012, 06:24 AM ET
The planetary candidate could be evaporating from the intense heat of its parent star.
23 May 2012, 03:12 PM ET
Opportunity was perched at the rim of Mars' Endeavour Crater when it took the picture.
23 May 2012, 01:53 PM ET
By the end of the 19th Century, the relative spacing of the planets was known but the absolute distance between them was not. This scientific mystery spanning centuries was finally solved by accurate measurement of Venus Transits of 1874 and 1882.
23 May 2012, 01:45 PM ET
Researchers are trying to understand the origins of the beautiful planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71.
23 May 2012, 01:43 PM ET
Offering un-obstructed views of the Sun from horizon to horizon and superb weather, Hawaii was perfect for astronomers to view Venus Transits in 1874 and 1882. Such observations accurately determined the scale of the Solar System for the first time.
23 May 2012, 01:34 PM ET
Sky-watching, navigation and the poetry of the cosmos runs deep in Hawaiian culture. Now Hawaiian elementary school students are diving deeply into astronomy’s the history and future through the Venus Transit.
23 May 2012, 01:07 PM ET
In 1882, scientists determined Earth’s distance from the Sun by measuring the Venus Transit. This process, now applied in NASA orbiting Kepler Mission, discovers new planets by measuring the light-curve of transit across other stars faraway.
23 May 2012, 12:29 PM ET
Hawaii is a metaphor for Earth’s place in the cosmos. Native Hawaiians have long recognized the sky’s spiritual and intellectual value. Hawaii hosted observers of the Venus Transits of 1874 & 1882; and it warmly supports astrophysicists today.
23 May 2012, 08:00 AM ET
A mechanical engineer works on the Robot Brain Surgeon testbed in the NeuroEngineering Group at the Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.
22 May 2012, 04:16 PM ET
An astronomer has proposed the existence of an unseen planet in the distant outskirts of the solar system. It would explain the peculiar motions of Kuiper belt objects.
22 May 2012, 09:46 AM ET
Tarter will begin fundraising for the SETI Institute full-time.
22 May 2012, 09:45 AM ET
Tarter will shift to fundraising for the SETI Institute full-time.
21 May 2012, 02:39 PM ET
See amazing solar eclipse pictures from the annular eclipse of May 20, 2012 and vote for your favorites.
21 May 2012, 01:38 PM ET
Many eyes – human and robotic – captured photons from the May 20th 2012 annular eclipse. We've compiled videos from NASA/JAXA (Hinode), ESA, Matt Hartman, Cory Pool and Alek O. Komarnitsky to make this celestial ballet set to music by Mark Petersen.
