Spaceflight Archive
26 April 2013, 12:14 PM ET
The retired space shuttle is being readied for exhibition at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center.
26 April 2013, 12:12 PM ET
The video offers an unprecedented glimpse of the sun's activity as it waxes and wanes.
26 April 2013, 11:29 AM ET
This beautiful space wallpaper shows a sunset at Concordia research station in Antarctica. The wooden platforms are for observation posts for astronomers. At the southern tip of the world Concordia receives no sunlight for around four months each year.
26 April 2013, 09:59 AM ET
A Russian Progress cargo capsule successfully delivered more than 3 tons of supplies to the International Space Station today (April 26).
26 April 2013, 07:40 AM ET
NASA's Messenger and Stereo-A space probes were not affected by three back-to-back solar storms, scientists say.
26 April 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The name won a contest organized by space-funding company Uwingu.
25 April 2013, 05:40 PM ET
The world needs to get serious about removing debris from orbit.
25 April 2013, 05:03 PM ET
The tank will be displayed at the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum in Florida.
25 April 2013, 04:39 PM ET
After years competing in spaceflight, the United States and the Soviet Union did a joint mission for the first time in 1975.
25 April 2013, 02:01 PM ET
A fast, dense pulsar with a white dwarf companion offered a unique test.
25 April 2013, 12:43 PM ET
How do you upchuck if there is no up or down? ISS commander Chris Hadfield explains what astronauts do if they have to vomit.
25 April 2013, 11:49 AM ET
A hyper-dense spinning neutron and its rapidly orbiting companion white dwarf star seem to support Einstein’s General Relativity model of gravity under extreme conditions where the theory might have broken down.
25 April 2013, 10:15 AM ET
The full moon of April coincides with the first lunar eclipse of the year on April 25.
25 April 2013, 09:34 AM ET
Technicians make adjustments on the solar-powered, remotely piloted craft before its record-setting flight.
25 April 2013, 07:15 AM ET
See amazing photos of the sun during the peak of solar activity in 2013.
24 April 2013, 06:54 PM ET
Planetary Resources hopes to loft a set of cubesats to Earth orbit by this time next year.
24 April 2013, 01:07 PM ET
A new show from the writers of 'Mad Men' might depict 1960s-era space journalists.
24 April 2013, 12:00 PM ET
The 6th European Conference on Space Debris is being held this week in Germany.
24 April 2013, 09:13 AM ET
The Progress 51 cargo craft successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 24th, 2013. While on-orbit, an antenna used as a navigational aid did not deploy, ground controllers are currently assessing the situation.
24 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The celestial action begins tonight, when the moon sidles up to the star Spica.
24 April 2013, 12:45 AM ET
Test your knowledge about Hubble, which has revolutionized our understanding of the universe since its April 1990 launch.
23 April 2013, 02:56 PM ET
Hubble snapped the new photos on April 10, when Comet ISON was 386 million miles from the sun.
23 April 2013, 08:00 AM ET
The Mock-Up Reactor core as seen from the Plum Brook Facility control room.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
NASA had been splitting costs with the U.S. Deparment of Energy.
23 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Robots aren't yet capable of exploring the Red Planet's most promising environments.
