Skywatching Archive
22 January 2013, 03:55 PM ET
Watch from the International Space Station as high-altitude clouds glow.
22 January 2013, 03:30 PM ET
Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources both aim to harvest the riches of space rocks.
21 January 2013, 02:51 PM ET
Deep Space Industries plans to tap the many riches space rocks harbor.
21 January 2013, 11:31 AM ET
Under President Barack Obama, NASA is following a bold mission to send astronauts to an asteroid, and then to Mars.
21 January 2013, 08:00 AM ET
Ancient cedar trees from Japan recorded a spike in the rare chemical carbon-14.
21 January 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Jupiter and the moon will appear just a finger-width apart in a dazzling display tonight (Jan. 21).
20 January 2013, 02:40 PM ET
McLaughlin Crater on Mars is 57 miles wide and deep enough that groundwater may have filled it in the distant past.
19 January 2013, 10:35 AM ET
The robotic "hedgehogs" could ride the Phobos Surveyor spacecraft to Mars in a few decades.
19 January 2013, 09:30 AM ET
A space object has been nicknamed the Manatee Nebula.
18 January 2013, 05:12 PM ET
Black holes are strange regions where gravity is strong enough to bend light, warp space and distort time.
18 January 2013, 03:39 PM ET
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory takes photos at a higher definition than Ultra-HD TVs can display.
18 January 2013, 12:15 PM ET
NASA to roll out full-size space vehicle replicas, a 'Star Party' and 'Mohawk Guy.'
17 January 2013, 05:09 PM ET
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took the crisp photo.
17 January 2013, 04:46 PM ET
A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are cramming for their final hurdle before launch.
17 January 2013, 10:23 AM ET
Russia likely launched three Rodnik-class military communications satellites.
16 January 2013, 03:11 PM ET
Bigelow Aerospace's BEAM expandable module will enhance the living area of the International Space Station.
16 January 2013, 01:12 PM ET
Details of the Orion four-person capsule that could carry crews to the Moon or an asteroid, beginning in 2021.
16 January 2013, 08:50 AM ET
Columbia was the first space shuttle to reach orbit, in 1981. It flew 28 times before disaster struck in 2003.
15 January 2013, 09:25 AM ET
The principal pilots are pictured with the HL-10.
15 January 2013, 12:31 AM ET
Astronomers have found 90 percent of the largest near-Earth asteroids that could threaten Earth.
13 January 2013, 10:35 AM ET
A recent photo of war-torn Syria from Space has Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield focused on peace on Earth.
11 January 2013, 06:24 PM ET
The winners programmed testing satellites that maneuvered in the cabin of the International Space Station.
11 January 2013, 04:01 AM ET
The clump of quasars stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end.
11 January 2013, 04:00 AM ET
Scientists say an enormous cluster of quasars in the distant universe is larger than should be possible.
10 January 2013, 03:16 PM ET
The new satellite will replaced Landsat 5, which is being decommissioned.
