Skywatching Archive
30 October 2012, 05:52 PM ET
Multiple sources are reporting that Disney has bought Lucasfilm, with a new STAR WARS movie coming in 2015.
30 October 2012, 11:27 AM ET
A NASA worker has a long-standing tradition of carving "space-o'-lanterns."
30 October 2012, 07:00 AM ET
Voyages to Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn are possible with NASA's SLS rocket in development.
29 October 2012, 01:33 PM ET
Candy in space is more than just Milky Ways and Mars bars.
26 October 2012, 12:53 PM ET
Fomalhaut b exists after all, according to a new study.
26 October 2012, 12:10 PM ET
Higher-than-normal tides could make the effects of Sandy's landfall even worse.
26 October 2012, 10:59 AM ET
The lightweight, solar-powered, remote-controlled aircraft was designed for long-term scientific sampling or imaging missions.
24 October 2012, 11:50 AM ET
Reversal happened in less than a thousand years.
23 October 2012, 09:36 AM ET
The Soyuz spacecraft launch from Site 31 was the first manned mission from the launch pad in 28 years.
22 October 2012, 09:23 AM ET
The meteorite from the Oct. 17 fireball dented the roof of a house in Novato, Calif.
21 October 2012, 11:22 AM ET
The Orionid meteor shower is one of two "shooting star" displays created by bits of Halley's Comet.
19 October 2012, 02:35 PM ET
The small satellite will study super-Earths and large alien planets orbiting nearby stars.
17 October 2012, 05:09 PM ET
There's a strange goat-fish constellation visible in the night sky now.
17 October 2012, 10:31 AM ET
The last aircraft in the Dryden Lifting Body program, the X-24B was a wingless craft designed to fly back to Earth from space.
16 October 2012, 04:35 PM ET
Three stars in this system are the sun's nearest stellar neighbors.
16 October 2012, 03:20 PM ET
Astronomers have probed a dark matter filament that extends from a massive galaxy cluster 5.4 billion light-years away.
16 October 2012, 09:53 AM ET
The biologist works with NASA to develop ways to track changes in ocean temperature and more by satellite.
15 October 2012, 03:00 PM ET
Five planets are packed within an area smaller than the orbit of Earth.
15 October 2012, 09:42 AM ET
13 October 2012, 07:00 AM ET
The orbiter arrives at its museum retirement home today (Oct. 13).
12 October 2012, 06:38 PM ET
Orbcomm still plans to launch the rest of its communications constellation aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
12 October 2012, 05:42 PM ET
A new wearable robotic suit is being developed to help people walk in space and on Earth.
12 October 2012, 04:35 PM ET
The huge geoglyph may predate Peru's famous Nazca Lines.
12 October 2012, 03:28 PM ET
The Tissint meteorite brought some of the Red Planet to Earth in a big way.
12 October 2012, 01:37 PM ET
Felix Baumgartner aims to leap from 23 miles above Earth's surface.
