Spaceflight Archive
23 February 2013, 07:01 AM ET
The scientist responsible for detecting asteroids with NEOSSat sat down with SPACE.com.
22 February 2013, 06:43 PM ET
Comet Hale-Bopp put on a spectacular show when it swung around the sun in the late 1990s.
22 February 2013, 01:49 PM ET
NASA's Messenger spacecraft is the first dedicated to orbiting Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet.
22 February 2013, 01:35 PM ET
For the first time on Mars, a rover has collected a rock sample using a drill. Curiosity's drill captured about 1 table spoon of Martian rock.
22 February 2013, 11:16 AM ET
Changing a potentially dangerous space rock's reflectivity could nudge it off course.
21 February 2013, 04:58 PM ET
Canadian skywatcher Kevin Fetter recently caught this view of the U.S. Air Force X-37B robot space plane on its Orbital Test Vehicle-3 mission.
21 February 2013, 08:55 AM ET
Workers prepare to test the Plum Brook Reactor.
21 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
White dwarfs have magnetic fields many thousands of times stronger than any on Earth.
21 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The X-37B has been orbiting Earth on a mystery mission since Dec. 11, 2012.
20 February 2013, 07:23 PM ET
This cool space wallpaper from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbor, the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86.
20 February 2013, 06:07 PM ET
Home of the hottest temperature on Earth also gets 'Gold Tier' rating for spectacular night skies.
20 February 2013, 05:24 PM ET
This space wallpaper shows an artist’s impression of the disc of gas and cosmic dust around the young star HD 142527.
20 February 2013, 05:11 PM ET
The rover drilled into rock on the Martian surface on February 8th and 20th, 2013. Samples were also transferred back to the rover for analysis. The drill was demonstrated by NASA using Curiosity's twin here on Earth.
20 February 2013, 03:14 PM ET
The blinking star Algol is actually a pair of eclipsing stars.
20 February 2013, 01:00 PM ET
Kepler-37b, about the size of Earth's moon, orbits a sun-like star 215 light-years away.
20 February 2013, 12:59 PM ET
The press conference starts at 3 p.m. EST and may discuss Curiosity's drilling work on Mars.
20 February 2013, 11:22 AM ET
On July 19th, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory witnessed a medium sized flare accompanied by a enormous magnetic loop of superheated plasma emanating from the surface
20 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Guinness World Records has honored Landsat 5's nearly 30 years in space.
20 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Astronomers at the University of Hawaii are building ATLAS to detect incoming space rocks.
19 February 2013, 06:24 PM ET
Thousands images from NASA MESSENGER's wide angle camera comprise this rotating false-color mosaic map. The visible colors are correlated with variations in Mercury's surface spectral reflectance.
19 February 2013, 05:26 PM ET
The NASA video clearly shows asteroid 2012 DA14 tumbling through space near Earth.
19 February 2013, 05:05 PM ET
Chad Blakley (lightsoverlapland.com) captured stunning imagery of the Northern Lights on February 18th, 2013. Powerful Auroras have filled the skies above Abisko National Park for 13 straight nights. This time-lapse shows the auroras on Day 13.
19 February 2013, 11:26 AM ET
Big, slow sound from meteor blast was detected by nuclear test ban monitors.
19 February 2013, 08:24 AM ET
Two comets in the Southern Hemisphere will light up the sky in late February before moving north in early March.
18 February 2013, 07:57 AM ET
The first results from the AMS experiment on the International Space Station are expected in about two weeks.
