Skywatching Archive
05 March 2013, 06:17 PM ET
As Comet Pan-STARRS brightens, a German travel agency is offering some skywatchers a chance to watch the dazzling show from above the clouds.
05 March 2013, 04:33 PM ET
Comet Pan-STARRS and Comet Lemmon were captured together in stunning night sky photos.
05 March 2013, 03:59 PM ET
Comet Siding Spring is expected to come within 30,000 miles of Mars in October next year.
05 March 2013, 10:44 AM ET
The online Slooh Space Camera will offer a live webcast of the sun at 2:30 p.m. ET (1930 GMT) today.
05 March 2013, 08:02 AM ET
Veteran night sky photographer Bill Snyder snapped the stunning image of Hourglass Nebula.
04 March 2013, 04:49 PM ET
Three comets are putting on a show for sky watchers in 2013: Pan-STARRS, Lemmon and ISON.
04 March 2013, 04:04 PM ET
Find out how long the moon is officially "full," why a half-illuminated moon is called a "quarter moon," and more.
04 March 2013, 03:26 PM ET
Comet Pan-STARRS will be visible from the Northern Hemisphere on March 7.
04 March 2013, 12:08 PM ET
See sky maps for the most promising night sky events of March 2013.
04 March 2013, 05:56 AM ET
Skywatcher P-M Heden of The World at Night snapped this beautiful image of a family stargazing in September 2012.
04 March 2013, 05:10 AM ET
Astrophotographers Bob and Janice Fera captured this brilliant image of spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, M82.
03 March 2013, 10:00 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
02 March 2013, 10:21 AM ET
Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere have a chance of spotting SpaceX's private Dragon capsule chasing the space station.
01 March 2013, 11:18 PM ET
From a Buzz Aldrin in the eye of a needle to Mount Etna's eruption , don't miss these amazing space pictures.
28 February 2013, 06:42 PM ET
A comet proposed to have crashed into North America almost 13,000 years ago didn't do so, according to new research.
28 February 2013, 06:05 PM ET
Made of interplanetary dust, the Zodiacal Light is a faint haze in the night sky.
28 February 2013, 05:24 PM ET
The waxing gibbous moon will be really close to the bright star Spica.
28 February 2013, 05:06 PM ET
Scientists on skidoos search for space rocks.
28 February 2013, 12:50 PM ET
The latest eruption at Italy's Mount Etna seen from space.
27 February 2013, 05:43 PM ET
Record-setting snowfall in Texas spotted by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite.
27 February 2013, 12:59 AM ET
See photos of an apparent meteor that lit up the Russian sky on Feb. 15, 2013, and created a massive blast.
26 February 2013, 07:21 PM ET
On February 26th, 2013, Chris Pruzenski recorded Luna descending in Hemlock, NY. He used a Nikon D5100 camera with a Celestron C8-NGT, 1000mm telescope. The house in the video is 1.55 miles away from where he was shooting.
26 February 2013, 04:08 PM ET
One toddler's fascination with the moon has become a hit on YouTube.
26 February 2013, 01:10 PM ET
Sunlight reflects off mirrorlike water off the coast of the United States in this photo.
