Spaceflight Archive
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield helped Canada launch a new $5 bill from orbit.
30 April 2013, 06:56 PM ET
The Long March rocket's primary payload was a high-resolution Chinese Earth-observation satellite.
30 April 2013, 03:21 PM ET
Mars was formed from smaller pieces of rock than those that formed Jupiter, a new study concludes.
30 April 2013, 02:19 PM ET
That's about $8 million more than the previous going rate.
30 April 2013, 01:05 PM ET
NASA's first space shuttle, Enterprise, will soon have a new pavilion home in New York City.
30 April 2013, 12:30 PM ET
Each mosaic was stitched together using at least 20 images taken by the rover itself.
30 April 2013, 11:27 AM ET
A C3.0-class solar flare erupted from the Sun on April 29th, 2013. Most of the ejected plasma did not have the velocity to break free of the Sun. The event was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
30 April 2013, 10:27 AM ET
Jupiter, Mercury and Venus get together. Using binoculars, see the Virgo Cluster and Sombrero galaxy. The Eta Aquarid meteor shower rains and an annular solar eclipse is viewable in Northern Australia.
30 April 2013, 09:24 AM ET
The Remote Controlled research staff and several of the lifting body models displayed with the radio controlled mothership.
30 April 2013, 07:24 AM ET
Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo customers could be flying by the end of the year.
30 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Star-forming regions in space could explain the ingredients of life on Earth.
29 April 2013, 07:52 PM ET
The robot's handlers have prepared commands designed to get things back to normal.
29 April 2013, 05:47 PM ET
See reactions and celebrations of Virgin Galactic's major rocket-powered flight test of SpaceShipTwo on April 29, 2013.
29 April 2013, 03:18 PM ET
President Barack Obama restated his support for the sciences during an address today (April 29).
29 April 2013, 03:00 PM ET
The ISIS impactor would tag along with NASA's InSight mission to Mars.
29 April 2013, 02:08 PM ET
This space wallpaper is an artist’s impression showing the exotic double object that consists of a tiny, but very heavy neutron star that spins 25 times each second, orbited every two and a half hours by a white dwarf star.
29 April 2013, 01:30 PM ET
Who were the men behind the X-15?
29 April 2013, 11:00 AM ET
See photos of Virgin Galactic's private spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, as it undergoes testing for future space tourism flights.
29 April 2013, 06:50 AM ET
Veteran skywatcher P-M Heden captured this amazing night sky photo of Comet PanSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy over rural Sweden.
29 April 2013, 06:45 AM ET
Lunokhod 1 last trekked across the lunar surface more than four decades ago.
28 April 2013, 10:25 AM ET
The Slooh Space Camera will offer live views of Comet ISON tonight (April 30) at 5:00 pm ET (2100 GMT). Here's how to see the possible 'comet of the century.'
26 April 2013, 03:25 PM ET
Science generally describes time as an illusion.
26 April 2013, 02:55 PM ET
A group of dedicated Star Trek fans hope to have a reconstructed display bridge open to tourists next year.
26 April 2013, 02:12 PM ET
Chris Hadfield shows the world how to barf on the International Space Station.
26 April 2013, 01:50 PM ET
The small satellite is called HiakaSat.
