Spaceflight Archive
11 March 2013, 04:46 PM ET
Higher temperatures and a longer growing season mean some of Earth's chilliest regions are looking increasingly green, researchers say.
11 March 2013, 03:57 PM ET
Mars One has contracted with Paragon Space Development Corp. to do a conceptual design study.
11 March 2013, 01:42 PM ET
A new NASA challenge tasks students with protecting astronauts and hardware from deep-space radiation.
11 March 2013, 01:28 PM ET
Life elsewhere in the universe might not be as plentiful as some scientists think.
11 March 2013, 12:31 PM ET
A new Google Doodle celebrates Douglas Adams's 61st birthday.
11 March 2013, 10:41 AM ET
NASA will reveal new discoveries about Mars gleaned from Curiosity rover's first rock powder sample on Tuesday (March 12, 2013).
11 March 2013, 09:39 AM ET
The Apollo 14 module is pictured on the moon.
11 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The first spacecraft to orbit Mercury will have to shut down soon, unless it gets a mission extension.
11 March 2013, 01:32 AM ET
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took this striking space wallpaper of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and brightly coloured ribbon in space. This image was released Dec. 18, 2012.
10 March 2013, 08:29 AM ET
Comet Pan-STARRS will be 28 million miles from the sun and could be at its brightest, but twilight may interfere.
09 March 2013, 08:50 AM ET
The January incident is the fourth known case of an active satellite being struck by orbital debris.
08 March 2013, 07:38 PM ET
A fragment of the Chinese Fengyun 1C weather satellite, destroyed on purpose in 2007,damaged the Russian nanosatellite BLITS on Jan. 22, 2013.
08 March 2013, 06:17 PM ET
Comet-Pan-STARRS will be at its brightest on Sunday night (March 10), but there is more to the comet than meets the eye.
08 March 2013, 05:56 PM ET
The newest comet in the Northern Hemisphere is full of surprises.
08 March 2013, 05:32 PM ET
China's FENGYUN 1C polar-orbiting weather satellite was destroyed during the test of the weapon in 2007. Analytical Graphics created this animation using data tracks of the debris in June 2007. Courtesy of Analytical Graphics, Inc.
08 March 2013, 05:21 PM ET
On Jan. 22, 2013 debris from a Chinese anti-satellite test collided with a Russian satellite called BLITS.
08 March 2013, 05:06 PM ET
Churning ocean waters could have provided nutrients to diversifying primordial life.
08 March 2013, 04:57 PM ET
Olympus Mons rises 16 miles above the Martian surface, making it the solar system's tallest volcano.
08 March 2013, 04:52 PM ET
There are slight hints, however, of something more.
08 March 2013, 04:26 PM ET
Explosions on the Sun that blast ionized plasma across space can have a big impact on the day to day lives of humans. The United Nations are taking the matter very seriously.
08 March 2013, 04:20 PM ET
The space-based telescope is expected to exhaust its vital supply of liquid coolant in the coming weeks.
08 March 2013, 03:42 PM ET
Learn about the huge new radio observatory opening high in the Chilean desert.
08 March 2013, 03:03 PM ET
A new observatory is opening high in Chile's Atacama desert.
07 March 2013, 05:37 PM ET
SPACE.com's Clara Moskowitz will speak with the space-astronaut Chris Cassidy Friday (March 8).
07 March 2013, 03:29 PM ET
Here's what may have created the strange glowing objects in the skies above Sydney.
