Spaceflight Archive
09 April 2013, 01:53 PM ET
Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, has a wispy oxygen atmosphere.
09 April 2013, 06:30 AM ET
No commands will be sent to all four active NASA Mars explorers for the next few weeks.
08 April 2013, 06:15 PM ET
David Scott's mission to the moon focused on science and featured the first lunar road trip.
08 April 2013, 03:29 PM ET
See eye-popping photos of the night sky by submitted by SPACE.com readers in April 2013.
08 April 2013, 01:55 PM ET
An area covering northern Namibia and southern Angola is pictured in this stunning space wallpaper. Running across this Kompsat-2 satellite image, the Okavango River forms the border between Namibia to the south and Angola to the north.
08 April 2013, 10:09 AM ET
A new private rocket was rolled onto its launch pad in Virginia on Saturday (April 6)
08 April 2013, 10:04 AM ET
Sen. Bill Nelson announced a bold plan to 'lasso' a passing asteroid and bring it closer to our planetary system for examination.
08 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Progress made over the next year will determine whether the Mission for America gets off the ground in 2018.
05 April 2013, 06:25 PM ET
The tiny moon Enceladus is one of the most promising potential sites for hosting life in the solar system.
05 April 2013, 04:22 PM ET
The world's largest vacuum chamber is ready for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
05 April 2013, 04:02 PM ET
Sunspot 1748 had just begun its rotation to the Earthside of the Sun on April 5th and already has erupted twice. The first was a C2-class flare and a stronger M2-class flare occurred about 10 hours later.
05 April 2013, 10:14 AM ET
Space weapons may have been conceived in the realm of science fiction, but they have since crept closer toward science fact. President Barack Obama has proposed a ban on space weapons in the United States, but other countries are taking active roles in ta
05 April 2013, 06:30 AM ET
Pyongyang's missiles aren't powerful or reliable enough at the moment, experts say.
04 April 2013, 03:14 PM ET
Lightning triggered the blaze on Monday, April 1, according to media reports.
04 April 2013, 11:37 AM ET
The actor wants to pony up $200K for a seat, but doesn't want to be a guinea pig for the program
04 April 2013, 07:02 AM ET
NASA scientists and officials celebrated the latest discoveries from the International Space Station on Wednesday (April 3).
04 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Mars is on the other side of the sun from Earth, making communications difficult.
03 April 2013, 05:57 PM ET
A 16-student team drew up plans for a manned visit to the Mars moon Phobos.
03 April 2013, 05:36 PM ET
The potential dark matter find announced today wouldn't have been possible without the International Space Station.
03 April 2013, 04:57 PM ET
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has high praise for the first results from the space station's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
03 April 2013, 03:27 PM ET
A Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter camera (HiRISE) has been snapping imagery of the used parachute on the Martain surface, along with the backshell it is attached to. It is the largest parachute of its kind ever constructed - about 65 feet in diameter.
03 April 2013, 02:42 PM ET
SPACE.com's Miriam Kramer asked Nobel prize winner and NASA's AMS-02 principle investigator Samuel C.C. Ting about the performance of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the ISS (a mission that was almost scrapped after the Columbia Disaster).
03 April 2013, 02:06 PM ET
A panel of scientists discuss the issues facing the search for and understanding of planets orbiting far-distant stars in part one of an eight-part series.
03 April 2013, 12:03 PM ET
Advanced cameras helped scientists spot the phenomenon.
03 April 2013, 11:23 AM ET
This stunning space wallpaper reveals W3, which is an enormous stellar nursery about 6200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy’s main spiral arms, that hosts both low- and high-mass star formation.
