Spaceflight Archive
27 February 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The fireball's parent body likely belongs to the Apollo class of Earth-crossing asteroids.
27 February 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Observations from NASA's Messenger probe indicate Mercury was once roiling with magma.
27 February 2013, 12:39 AM ET
This cool space wallpaper shows an artist’s impression of the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9. This is the closest such object to the Solar System.
26 February 2013, 05:53 PM ET
Comet ISON, discovered by two amateur astronomers in Russia, will arrive in Earth's neighborhood in November 2013.
26 February 2013, 05:20 PM ET
More than 12,000 people signed a petition for a U.S. postage stamp to honor NASA's first Pluto probe.
26 February 2013, 04:51 PM ET
NASA is facing a looming $900 million budget hit if Congress fails to act by March 1.
26 February 2013, 04:00 PM ET
See the top 10 cool facts about our natural satellite, the moon.
26 February 2013, 01:10 PM ET
Sunlight reflects off mirrorlike water off the coast of the United States in this photo.
26 February 2013, 01:09 PM ET
The possible feature may also help astronomers better map out the galaxy's mass distribution.
26 February 2013, 12:57 PM ET
When the ISS orbital track runs along the 'terminator' (shadow line), astronauts can witness a rare unsetting Sun. Images snapped during one orbit on January 6th, 2013 were compiled to create this video.
26 February 2013, 12:00 PM ET
Europe aims to collaborate with China on its plans to build a space station by 2020.
26 February 2013, 09:58 AM ET
The Mars rover Curiosity placed the rock powder sample from a drilled Martian rock into two onboard instruments.
26 February 2013, 09:05 AM ET
This rig was developed to train astronauts in how to gain control of a spacecraft moving in multiple directions at the same time.
26 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Two Canadian adventure-tour companies will add space to their list of destinations.
26 February 2013, 06:30 AM ET
SpaceX's Falcon 9 executed a "static fire" engine test to prep for Friday's launch of the Dragon capsule.
26 February 2013, 12:04 AM ET
In this space wallpaper, a Landsat image from July 19, 2011 shows Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River in the southwestern United States.
25 February 2013, 02:22 PM ET
Two patches have been released for the upcoming March 1 launch of the SpaceX Dragon capsule.
25 February 2013, 01:36 PM ET
This March, the Gemini and Cancer constellations will dominate the nights sky, while the planets Jupiter and Saturn will be visibile through telescopes.
25 February 2013, 12:00 PM ET
Vulcan pulls out the win in the Pluto Rocks competition.
25 February 2013, 09:39 AM ET
Orbital Sciences (NASA Commercial partner) test fired their rocket on February 22nd, 2013 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The company is one step closer to launching their ISS re-supply spacecraft (Cygnas Service Module).
25 February 2013, 07:32 AM ET
The asteroid-tracking NEOSSat and BRITE nanosatellite telescopes were just some of the seven satellites launched Monday (Feb. 25).
25 February 2013, 06:30 AM ET
Scientists approved 11 experiments for an ambitious mission to explore Jupiter's icy moons.
25 February 2013, 12:03 AM ET
This space wallpaper from ESO’s VISTA telescope reveals a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light.
24 February 2013, 11:28 PM ET
This artist’s impression shows the material ejected from the region around the supermassive black hole in the quasar SDSS J1106+1939 in this cool space wallpaper.
24 February 2013, 07:30 AM ET
The Canadian Space Agency's NEOSSat is set to launch on an Indian rocket Monday (Feb. 25).
