Spaceflight Archive
03 April 2013, 11:00 AM ET
A space station particle detector has found hints of elusive dark matter in cosmic radiation.
03 April 2013, 09:54 AM ET
The space agency will unveil the first results from the $2 billion antimatter-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station.
03 April 2013, 09:34 AM ET
A NACA staff testing the chemical properties of substances at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory.
03 April 2013, 07:37 AM ET
Night sky photographer Martin Pugh in Australia captured this amazing view of the Pencil Nebula in March 2013.
03 April 2013, 07:33 AM ET
The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation tells us the age and composition of the universe and raises new questions that must be answered.
03 April 2013, 07:26 AM ET
New supercomputer simulations show how spiral galaxies like the Milky Way get, and keep, their skinny, star-studded arms.
03 April 2013, 07:01 AM ET
Here are some of the most puzzling mysteries facing astronomers today.
02 April 2013, 03:52 PM ET
A collision may have spun Saturn's fourth moon around 180 degrees.
02 April 2013, 03:36 PM ET
NASA is calling on coders to give the space robot Robonaut 2 better vision
02 April 2013, 01:08 PM ET
Take an in-depth look at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will hunt dark matter, cosmic rays and antimatter galaxies.
02 April 2013, 10:34 AM ET
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield snapped a photo when a Soyuz capsule rocketed to the space station last week.
02 April 2013, 10:30 AM ET
Astrophotographer Jeff Berkes sent in an image of the Milky Way soaring over the Grand Canyon.
02 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The orbital workshop was designed and built at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
01 April 2013, 05:01 PM ET
A new campaign from a private organization could give NASA a public boost.
01 April 2013, 02:57 PM ET
Up to 20 meteors per hour may be visible during the meteor shower and some parts of the world will be able to witness the eclipse.
01 April 2013, 02:43 PM ET
Russia has a five-step plan to launch new ambitious robotic moon missions through 2020.
01 April 2013, 09:35 AM ET
NASA's Space Launch System is a heavy-lift rocket designed to carry astronauts to an asteroid and Mars.
01 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Night sky photographer Terry Hancock captured the striking spiral galaxy image with former NASA scientist Fred Hermann.
01 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Scotland's first spacecraft is a new kind of nanosatellite for the United Kingdom.
01 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Amazing views of Earth from space will launch into IMAX theaters in 2015.
01 April 2013, 02:58 AM ET
See photos of Swiss Space System's unmanned satellite-launching rocket plane SOAR.
29 March 2013, 06:17 PM ET
This 2,500-mile system is one of the larger canyons in the solar system.
29 March 2013, 02:00 PM ET
The storm is creating waves up to 42 feet high.
29 March 2013, 12:55 PM ET
Soyuz TMA-08M of the Expedition 35 crew blasted off on Thursday March 28th and later docked with the International Space Station. Russian Cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky and Astronaut Michael S. Hopkins were aboard.
29 March 2013, 12:35 PM ET
The comet ISON is making what astronomers believe is its first trip through the inner solar system, taking a sweltering pass by the sun (making ISON a 'sungrazing' comet) and then back past Earth in December.
