Skywatching Archive
10 March 2013, 04:09 PM ET
The asteroids included small space rocks and one asteroid the size of a city block, all of them discovered just days ago.
08 March 2013, 06:30 PM ET
Congressman Frank Wolf chastises NASA for sharing information with Chinese nationals.
08 March 2013, 05:00 PM ET
See our collection of space debris images and some far-out ideas to clean it up.
08 March 2013, 05:00 PM ET
Millions of pieces of space junk swarm around the Earth.
08 March 2013, 11:45 AM ET
The Ariane 5 carried two telecom satellites to orbit on Feb. 7.
08 March 2013, 09:45 AM ET
The X-38 sits on the lakebed after a test flight.
07 March 2013, 02:00 PM ET
Impacts may have delivered the complex molecules needed for life to get started.
07 March 2013, 09:16 AM ET
Two mechanics pose with Langley's first wind tunnel.
07 March 2013, 07:06 AM ET
2013 might be the year of the comet.
06 March 2013, 08:30 PM ET
The solar outburst is complicating efforts to bring Curiosity back from a computer glitch.
06 March 2013, 05:42 PM ET
The last piece of cargo was unloaded from the Dragon space capsule today.
06 March 2013, 11:10 AM ET
Comet Pan-STARRS is currently the brightest comet in the night sky in recent years, but only the opening act for 2013.
05 March 2013, 11:05 AM ET
Two-part series follows an alien invasion of Earth from start to finish.
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.
03 March 2013, 05:04 AM ET
The spacecraft was captured by the space station's robotic arm
01 March 2013, 10:30 AM ET
A thruster issue just after launch is stalling SpaceX's Dragon capsule flight to the International Space Station.
01 March 2013, 10:10 AM ET
The unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule will carry cargo to the orbiting laboratory.
01 March 2013, 12:05 AM ET
CubeSats could someday be used for cheap, high-risk missions.
28 February 2013, 11:16 PM ET
Rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars is launching an album to space for a NASA astronaut.
28 February 2013, 05:24 PM ET
The waxing gibbous moon will be really close to the bright star Spica.
28 February 2013, 12:50 PM ET
The latest eruption at Italy's Mount Etna seen from space.
27 February 2013, 09:49 AM ET
Since the 1960s, humans have invaded our neighboring planet Mars with swarms of spacecraft. Only half of the attempts ever succeeded.
27 February 2013, 06:33 AM ET
A meteor exploded over a Russian city earlier today, injuring hundreds and damaging property.
27 February 2013, 06:21 AM ET
The findings are based on observations made by the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton space telescopes.
26 February 2013, 04:08 PM ET
One toddler's fascination with the moon has become a hit on YouTube.