Human Spaceflight Archive
10 December 2012, 07:13 PM ET
SpaceX, Boeing and Sierra Nevada each get about $10 million to start certifying their spaceships.
10 December 2012, 04:16 PM ET
Astronomers aren't sure where the Geminids came from, but they do know that skywatchers will get a good show in 2012.
10 December 2012, 03:10 PM ET
Running Man nebula sprints into focus in a stunning image captured by the Slooh Space Camera.
10 December 2012, 02:25 PM ET
Work-life balance and co-worker relationships helped NASA rank high on the list.
10 December 2012, 02:14 PM ET
See what the world looks like at night — from space.
10 December 2012, 12:36 PM ET
Sir Patrick Moore, host of TV's long-running "The Sky At Night," passed away.
10 December 2012, 07:00 AM ET
Astronomers are looking to crowdsource the identification of star clusters in M31, a galaxy in the Milky Way's backyard.
07 December 2012, 12:21 PM ET
Researchers want to fly a spaceship into a small asteroid called Didymos to see if its path is deflected.
07 December 2012, 09:08 AM ET
Workers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare the spacecraft for transfer to the launch pad.
06 December 2012, 03:39 PM ET
Sending humans far afield demands a dedicated agency, says former moonwalker Harrison Schmitt.
06 December 2012, 09:34 AM ET
At 12.4 billion light years from Earth, the enormous jet gives astronomers a peek at the life of giant black holes that existed not long after the Big Bang.
06 December 2012, 09:14 AM ET
An engineer studies film-cooling of combustors at the Rocket Laboratory.
06 December 2012, 09:00 AM ET
The Discovery-class mission could be ready to launch by 2020, researchers say.
06 December 2012, 07:01 AM ET
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog has seven candidate planets listed so far, and the pace of discovery is increasing, says its founder.
05 December 2012, 04:07 PM ET
See what the world looks like at night — from space.
05 December 2012, 02:20 PM ET
The findings should shed light on the evolution of the moon and the solar system's rocky planets.
05 December 2012, 11:15 AM ET
The brightest object in the early universe is helping to shine light on conditions soon after the Big Bang.
05 December 2012, 07:00 AM ET
NASA will keep running Curiosity and its other Mars assets as long as they're scientifically viable.
05 December 2012, 07:00 AM ET
Some scientists want the 2020 rover mission to collect pieces of Mars for eventual return to Earth.
04 December 2012, 01:01 PM ET
The rover's chief scientist was just excited about Curiosity's mission, and thrilled that one of its key instruments was working flawlessly.
04 December 2012, 12:37 PM ET
The first science findings from the newly launched Van Allen Probes were announced today.
04 December 2012, 12:01 PM ET
NASA's goal should be to pioneer the solar system, says a new report by the Space Foundation.
04 December 2012, 10:51 AM ET
Mars explorers could spend nearly two years on the Red Planet without receiving a worryingly high dose.
03 December 2012, 03:59 PM ET
The spider Nefertiti was launched to the space station in a student experiment for the YouTube Space Lab project.
03 December 2012, 02:12 PM ET
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft made the discovery as it nears the boundary of interstellar space.
