Search for Life Archive
01 April 2013, 03:52 PM ET
The Swiss Space Systems SOAR space plane will launch from the back of an Airbus A300 jetliner.
31 March 2013, 07:29 AM ET
NASA new Space Launch System is a huge rocket for manned deep space flights.
28 March 2013, 05:30 AM ET
NASA is suspending many of its public-outreach efforts as a result of sequestration.
27 March 2013, 09:00 PM ET
A recently discovered comet will make an uncomfortably-close planetary flyby next year — but this time it’s not Earth that's in the cosmic crosshairs.
27 March 2013, 03:14 PM ET
A memo recounting a strange story about three 'flying saucers' in New Mexico has been viewed nearly a million times in the past two years.
26 March 2013, 06:08 PM ET
It's not all peanut butter and honey sandwiches at the International Space Station for astronaut Chris Hadfield.
26 March 2013, 08:30 AM ET
The 80-second video featuring Comet Pan-STARRS was shot March 20 in northern Sweden.
23 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Weather concerns pushed the Dragon capsule's homecoming back one day.
22 March 2013, 06:38 PM ET
The sun should roar back to life in 2013, producing its second activity peak in the last two years.
22 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA won't send commands to its various Mars explorers for much of April.
21 March 2013, 05:46 PM ET
The broadcast came from the SCORE satellite in 1958.
21 March 2013, 04:10 PM ET
The newest Landsat satellite has opened its eyes.
21 March 2013, 11:15 AM ET
The European Planck Space Observatory revealed the universe is older than thought: 13.82 billion years old.
21 March 2013, 09:50 AM ET
A NASA technician inspects a transport model between wind tunnel tests at Langley.
21 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Located about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia, the heart nebula is a mix of gas and dark dust.
20 March 2013, 12:45 PM ET
Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
19 March 2013, 03:35 PM ET
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) believes that all nations, except China, should cooperate to mitigate the issue of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). NASA Admin. Charles Bolden explains that Congress forbids NASA's involvement with China.
19 March 2013, 02:01 PM ET
The Department of Energy has made its first plutonium-238 in a quarter century.
18 March 2013, 01:42 PM ET
The 3-mile-high Mount Sharp is Curiosity's ultimate destination.
18 March 2013, 06:08 AM ET
The Trajectory Browser calculates the requirements for robotic and manned missions to asteroids, comets, planets and other destinations in the solar system.
13 March 2013, 06:39 PM ET
The two-year mission of the one-ton rover is to find out if Mars is, or was, capable of supporting life.
12 March 2013, 07:13 PM ET
Answers to a few basic questions about the Curiosity rover's latest discovery.
12 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Solar sailing holds promise for interstellar flight, though daunting challenges must be overcome.
11 March 2013, 08:20 PM ET
The violent shaking during the Tohoku earthquake two years ago today sent acoustic waves into space.
11 March 2013, 05:05 PM ET
Is it PANSTARRS, PanSTARRS or Pan-STARRS?