Skywatching Archive
30 January 2013, 04:02 PM ET
See how NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites comsat constellation works in this SPACE.com Infographic.
30 January 2013, 04:00 PM ET
Star trails illuminate Wadi Rum desert in stunning night sky photo by astrophotographer Bashar Alaeddin.
30 January 2013, 02:37 PM ET
Flash came from storms sweeping across eastern U.S.
30 January 2013, 02:00 PM ET
The Dream Chaser will fly solo for the first time in six to eight weeks.
30 January 2013, 01:01 PM ET
Swirling gas around black holes provides the key.
30 January 2013, 01:01 PM ET
The disk around the star TW Hydrae may actually still be forming planets.
30 January 2013, 11:19 AM ET
TDRS-K is set to launch tonight, giving NASA's communications system an upgrade.
30 January 2013, 09:23 AM ET
A conception drawing from 1959 of a futuristic spacecraft.
30 January 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The sun governs how an outer layer of Venus's atmosphere behaves.
30 January 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Roundworms, or nematodes, made it through with only a little heat damage, scientists say.
29 January 2013, 04:19 PM ET
It's unknown if the 10-day "safe mode" has solved the problem with NASA's Kepler telescope.
29 January 2013, 02:35 PM ET
Mars One will use the money to fund conceptual design studies and its astronaut selection process.
29 January 2013, 02:28 PM ET
Long-term space experiments on animals can help assess the feasibility of interplanetary travel.
29 January 2013, 02:12 PM ET
Some scientists, however, say the unconfirmed success would do little to enhance Iran's missile capabilities.
29 January 2013, 02:09 PM ET
A storm from the Atlantic and cold air from Scandinavia combined to create snow conditions.
29 January 2013, 10:58 AM ET
The bright red, artificial night sky clouds may be visible from all along the U.S. East Coast, weather permitting.
29 January 2013, 09:01 AM ET
28 January 2013, 05:50 PM ET
NASA will honor the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia space disasters.
25 January 2013, 04:59 PM ET
A small area of NASA research gets some public attention with an online petition.
25 January 2013, 11:12 AM ET
The photos show Mars at night in visible and ultraviolet light.
25 January 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Ten years ago this month the devastating Columbia accident took the lives of seven astronauts.
24 January 2013, 02:01 PM ET
The strange pulsar 3,000 light-years from Earth defies all explanation, scientists say.
24 January 2013, 11:36 AM ET
A hypersonic vehicle that launches like a rocket could fly people from the U.S. to Europe in an hour.
24 January 2013, 07:24 AM ET
The nuclear-powered mobile science laboratory Curiosity will roll across the surface of Mars for years, searching for the conditions that may have once made Mars an abode of life.
23 January 2013, 05:04 PM ET
The Super-TIGER mission is collecting cosmic rays from space.
