Spaceflight Archive
21 March 2013, 04:10 PM ET
The newest Landsat satellite has opened its eyes.
21 March 2013, 02:55 PM ET
The Merlin 1D has achieved flight qualification status, the company announced Wednesday.
21 March 2013, 11:54 AM ET
370,000 years after the big bang, light that can be detected by the Planck Mission appeared. This cosmic microwave background can be mapped across the whole sphere of the sky.
21 March 2013, 11:10 AM ET
Chad Blakley (lightsoverlapland.com) captured the comet on the horizon and northern lights at Abisko National Park on March 20th, 2013.
21 March 2013, 09:54 AM ET
The European Space Agency's Planck observatory created the map by measuring the cosmic microwave background.
21 March 2013, 09:50 AM ET
A NASA technician inspects a transport model between wind tunnel tests at Langley.
21 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Scientists don't know what to expect at the solar system's extreme outer reaches.
21 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket will loft a simulated payload to an altitude of about 155 miles.
21 March 2013, 01:00 AM ET
There may not be a lot of air, but there's still a lot of weather in space. Get the latest news of space weather and solar flares here from SPACE.com.
20 March 2013, 04:53 PM ET
NASA's chief spoke before Congress after an agency contractor was arrested.
20 March 2013, 04:33 PM ET
During the equinox, night and day are almost the same length.
20 March 2013, 03:22 PM ET
Jack Swigert survived the perilous Apollo 13 mission, then took a different kind of risk: entering politics.
20 March 2013, 01:56 PM ET
John Glenn and Scott Carpenter won Explorers Club medals.
20 March 2013, 01:27 PM ET
Ed Lu (B612 Foundation/Fmr. NASA astronaut) testified that "whatever the entire population of the city was..would be gone" during a Senate hearing on potentially hazardous asteroids. The 1908 Tunguska Meteor leveled 800 sq. miles of forest.
20 March 2013, 01:10 PM ET
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to raise sunken Apollo 11 moon rocket engines from the ocean floor. Learn more about the Saturn V rocket's F-1 engines in this SPACE.com infographic.
20 March 2013, 01:00 PM ET
See images from NASA's twin Voyager probes, the farthest spacecraft from Earth.
20 March 2013, 12:45 PM ET
Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
20 March 2013, 12:17 PM ET
A sudden drop in cosmic ray intensity suggests that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is in a new region of space.
20 March 2013, 11:14 AM ET
Billionaire Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions has recovered vintage Saturn V F-1 rocket engines from the Atlantic Ocean floor.
20 March 2013, 09:52 AM ET
This half-scale test craft was pre-flighted by being carried on a truck.
19 March 2013, 03:29 PM ET
NASA's chief said budget cuts limited the agency's ability to track possibly dangerous asteroids.
19 March 2013, 01:30 PM ET
Dr. John Holdren and NASA Administrator Gen. Charles F. Bolden testified before congress on March 19, 2013 on Earth threatening asteroids and the current state of funding to battle the issue.
19 March 2013, 11:20 AM ET
Europe’s XMM-Newton space telescope has helped to identify a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the dizzying rate of once every 2.4 hours, smashing the previous record by nearly an hour.
19 March 2013, 08:28 AM ET
This stunning space wallpaper is an artist’s impression showing an eclipsing binary star system. As the two stars orbit each other they pass in front of one another and their combined brightness, seen from a distance, decreases.
19 March 2013, 03:18 AM ET
Some dwarf galaxies speeding through the universe lose most of their gas, making them all but invisible from Earth.
