Spaceflight Archive
01 May 2013, 05:26 PM ET
The video by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals a colossal plasma wave on the sun.
01 May 2013, 02:45 PM ET
Carl Hergenrother, an observational astronomer from the University of Arizona, and Mike Nolan, a radio astronomer from the Arecibo Observatory, talk about the importance of the OSIRIS-REx sample return mission.
01 May 2013, 02:16 PM ET
This amazing space wallpaper shows a close-up view of Saturn’s north-pole hurricane, as seen by the international Cassini spacecraft. The image reveals the intricate detail of cloud formations in this dynamic feature.
01 May 2013, 01:56 PM ET
NASA's $690 million Fermi Space Telescope narrowly a head-on crash with a dead Russian satellite on April 3.
01 May 2013, 01:28 PM ET
A neat trick for efficiently folding paper could be used to fold and unfurl sails used by cubesats hunting for meteoroids
01 May 2013, 12:12 PM ET
Physicists have hunted for predicted gravitational waves without luck so far.
01 May 2013, 09:47 AM ET
An image of the J-34 engine showing icing after a flight.
01 May 2013, 09:00 AM ET
The effort aims to start giving popular names to the hundreds of planets known beyond our solar system.
01 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The prolific instrument may soon lose its ability to lock precisely onto target stars.
01 May 2013, 06:00 AM ET
A meteor shower, galaxies and eclipses are just a few things to look forward to in the month of May.
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield helped Canada launch a new $5 bill from orbit.
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
The Long March rocket's primary payload was a high-resolution Chinese Earth-observation satellite.
30 April 2013, 04:56 PM ET
Artist's concepts illustrate how gravity waves might spread through the universe.
30 April 2013, 03:21 PM ET
Mars was formed from smaller pieces of rock than those that formed Jupiter, a new study concludes.
30 April 2013, 02:19 PM ET
That's about $8 million more than the previous going rate.
30 April 2013, 01:05 PM ET
NASA's first space shuttle, Enterprise, will soon have a new pavilion home in New York City.
30 April 2013, 12:30 PM ET
Each mosaic was stitched together using at least 20 images taken by the rover itself.
30 April 2013, 11:27 AM ET
A C3.0-class solar flare erupted from the Sun on April 29th, 2013. Most of the ejected plasma did not have the velocity to break free of the Sun. The event was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
30 April 2013, 10:27 AM ET
Jupiter, Mercury and Venus get together. Using binoculars, see the Virgo Cluster and Sombrero galaxy. The Eta Aquarid meteor shower rains and an annular solar eclipse is viewable in Northern Australia.
30 April 2013, 09:24 AM ET
The Remote Controlled research staff and several of the lifting body models displayed with the radio controlled mothership.
30 April 2013, 07:24 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo customers could be flying by the end of the year.
30 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Star-forming regions in space could explain the ingredients of life on Earth.
29 April 2013, 07:52 PM ET
The robot's handlers have prepared commands designed to get things back to normal.
29 April 2013, 05:47 PM ET
See reactions and celebrations of Virgin Galactic's major rocket-powered flight test of SpaceShipTwo on April 29, 2013.
29 April 2013, 03:18 PM ET
President Barack Obama restated his support for the sciences during an address today (April 29).
