Tech Archive
17 January 2013, 09:30 AM ET
Alex Rivest (alexrivest.com) has a PhD in Neuroscience, started a non-profit group whose mission is to improve education in sub-Saharan Africa, and is a photographer that edited this piece. He popped the question in Iceland, and she said yes.
16 January 2013, 05:56 PM ET
The first quarter moon is the best time to see the moon's best lunar features.
16 January 2013, 09:40 AM ET
As silly as the Death Star petition sounds, the idea of mega-weapons in space is nothing new.
16 January 2013, 08:50 AM ET
Columbia was the first space shuttle to reach orbit, in 1981. It flew 28 times before disaster struck in 2003.
15 January 2013, 01:33 PM ET
Towed behind a large transport aircraft like the Boeing 747, this concept glider conceived by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center would carry a booster rocket capable of launching payloads into low Earth orbit.
15 January 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The company just sold a module to NASA but wants to set up its own orbiting stations.
14 January 2013, 06:57 PM ET
This site near Las Cruces, New Mexico, is being planned as a base for commercial spaceflight.
14 January 2013, 04:47 PM ET
The new Enterprise exhibit is a temporary display while the shuttle's main display is restored after Super Storm Sandy.
13 January 2013, 10:00 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
11 January 2013, 01:01 PM ET
Ihis space wallpaper shows an artist's illustration of asteroid Apophis near Earth. The asteroid will fly extremely close to Earth in 2029, and then again in 2036, but poses no threat of hitting the planet.
11 January 2013, 06:50 AM ET
Each "bullet" is 10 times the size of Pluto's orbit around the sun.
10 January 2013, 04:40 PM ET
Asteroid Apophis is larger than three football fields and will fly closer to Earth than many satellites.
10 January 2013, 12:36 PM ET
Canadian spaceflyer Chris Hadfield has racked up about 130,000 new Twitter followers in the last few weeks.
10 January 2013, 10:40 AM ET
Tides are higher due to the sun and moon being close to Earth.
10 January 2013, 09:39 AM ET
See photos of planet Venus taken by the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft.
09 January 2013, 06:38 PM ET
Venus and the moon will shine close together before dawn on Jan. 10.
09 January 2013, 01:30 PM ET
The Type 1a supernova is 10 billion light-years from Earth.
09 January 2013, 01:28 PM ET
AXE is looking for 22 people with the "right stuff" to fly in space.
08 January 2013, 03:45 PM ET
The structure is more than 300 light-years long but just 1 or 2 light-years wide.
08 January 2013, 11:40 AM ET
Night sky photographer Amir H. Abolfath captured stunning image of the Milky Way over mountains of Iran.
07 January 2013, 05:49 PM ET
This cool space wallpaper shows six hundred newly forming stars are crowded into intricate filaments of gas and dust that makes up this stellar nursery, seen for the first time by ESA’s Herschel space observatory.
07 January 2013, 02:25 PM ET
The discovery boosts NASA's planet-hunting telescope's total to 2,740 alien worlds.
06 January 2013, 10:00 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
05 January 2013, 11:02 AM ET
The Curiosity rover has snapped photos of a Martian "flower" and "Snake River" on Mars.
03 January 2013, 02:01 PM ET
Molecular collisions in the atmosphere warmed the early Earth.
