Human Spaceflight Archive
06 March 2013, 02:03 PM ET
Determining habitability is more complicated for exomoons than exoplanets.
06 March 2013, 12:40 PM ET
Crater is four to five times bigger than famed Meteor Crater.
06 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Night sky photographer P-M Heden of The World at Night captures stunning image.
04 March 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The sun and its nearest twin, Alpha Centauri A, share a quirk: a puzzling cool layer in their wispy atmospheres.
04 March 2013, 05:32 AM ET
The newfound comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) has only a slim chance if hitting Mars.
02 March 2013, 10:21 AM ET
Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere have a chance of spotting SpaceX's private Dragon capsule chasing the space station.
01 March 2013, 04:50 PM ET
The issue with Dragon's thrusters imperiled its mission to the space station.
01 March 2013, 02:20 PM ET
The proposed spacecraft could hop from one piece of junk to the next without burning much fuel.
01 March 2013, 09:08 AM ET
A model of a rocket capable of interplanetary exploration.
01 March 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The X-15 test program offers lessons for the emerging suborbital spaceflight industry.
01 March 2013, 12:05 AM ET
CubeSats could someday be used for cheap, high-risk missions.
28 February 2013, 09:01 AM ET
Research pilot John Manke pictured with the M2-F3 lifting body.
28 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
A nonprofit group and two asteroid-mining companies are joining in.
28 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
Commercial vehicles will have to be much safer than the space shuttle, experts say.
28 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The Inspiration Mars Foundation is hoping to recruit a married couple for its 2018 manned Mars flyby mission.
27 February 2013, 01:05 PM ET
The discovery could help astronomers better understand how these behemoths grow.
27 February 2013, 06:00 AM ET
The fireball's parent body likely belongs to the Apollo class of Earth-crossing asteroids.
26 February 2013, 05:20 PM ET
More than 12,000 people signed a petition for a U.S. postage stamp to honor NASA's first Pluto probe.
26 February 2013, 12:00 PM ET
Europe aims to collaborate with China on its plans to build a space station by 2020.
26 February 2013, 09:58 AM ET
The Mars rover Curiosity placed the rock powder sample from a drilled Martian rock into two onboard instruments.
26 February 2013, 09:05 AM ET
This rig was developed to train astronauts in how to gain control of a spacecraft moving in multiple directions at the same time.
26 February 2013, 06:30 AM ET
SpaceX's Falcon 9 executed a "static fire" engine test to prep for Friday's launch of the Dragon capsule.
25 February 2013, 02:22 PM ET
Two patches have been released for the upcoming March 1 launch of the SpaceX Dragon capsule.
25 February 2013, 12:00 PM ET
Vulcan pulls out the win in the Pluto Rocks competition.
25 February 2013, 06:30 AM ET
Scientists approved 11 experiments for an ambitious mission to explore Jupiter's icy moons.
