Skywatching Archive
28 December 2012, 11:40 AM ET
A dazzling comet, a ring-of-fire solar eclipse and more will grace Earth's skies in 2013.
26 December 2012, 05:30 AM ET
The final full moon of the year rises into the sky on Friday, Dec. 28.
25 December 2012, 07:00 AM ET
It may not be Earth, but the residents of the ISS celebrate the holidays like everyone else.
24 December 2012, 07:00 AM ET
A brief rundown of some of the year's record-breaking astronomical finds.
20 December 2012, 05:03 PM ET
The Z-1 prototype represents a new step forward in engineering for NASA.
19 December 2012, 03:12 PM ET
Ultramassive black holes can weigh millions to billions of times the mass of the sun.
19 December 2012, 01:11 PM ET
A new Hubble photo brings holiday cheer.
19 December 2012, 07:12 AM ET
Three new crewmembers blasted off on a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station.
18 December 2012, 02:16 PM ET
A night sky photographer shot this spectacular image of Venus and a crescent moon.
18 December 2012, 01:36 PM ET
Two astronauts launching Wednesday will be the latest spaceflyers to study aging in space.
18 December 2012, 09:40 AM ET
Atlantis takes flight.
17 December 2012, 02:33 PM ET
Astronauts make cameos in a parody movie.
14 December 2012, 10:16 AM ET
An astronaut taking samples during the Apollo 17 mission is covered in lunar dirt.
13 December 2012, 10:42 AM ET
No release date for the film has been announced.
12 December 2012, 05:30 PM ET
Mount Everest was shot by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.
12 December 2012, 04:30 PM ET
NASA officials say the never-before-seen show could come from comet Wirtanen.
12 December 2012, 10:40 AM ET
Astronomers have put together an amazing new image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A.
12 December 2012, 06:00 AM ET
The new KMOS instrument on the Very Large Telescope uses robotic arms to observe distinct targets.
12 December 2012, 01:27 AM ET
The launch is already drawing condemnation from the United States and other nations.
11 December 2012, 02:10 PM ET
Asteroid 2012 XE54 came within 140,000 miles of our planet this morning.
11 December 2012, 01:16 PM ET
World-renowned cosmologist and discoverers of a Higgs-like particle snag world's richest science award.
11 December 2012, 07:01 AM ET
A small robot on the International Space Station could help astronauts on deep-space missions and lonely people on Earth, says one of its creators.
10 December 2012, 05:05 PM ET
Improvements help space telescope detect more terrestrial gamma-ray flashes.
10 December 2012, 04:39 PM ET
The two nations are discussing handing control of Baikonur Cosmodrome over to Kazakhstan.
10 December 2012, 07:30 AM ET
The third mission of the Air Force's X-37B program will blast off this week.
