03 June 2013, 03:25 PM ET
Using NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University created the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies, in a mosaic 14,000 light-years across.
03 June 2013, 11:58 AM ET
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data reveals an abundance of hydrogen (think 'H2O') trapped at the south pole. The data strongly suggests frozen water. This supports earlier discoveries by Clementine (1994) and Lunar Prospector probes (1999).
03 June 2013, 11:36 AM ET
For over a decade, Europe's Mars Express has detected a wide range of minerals on the surface. Levels of olivine and pyroxene speak of volcanoes and ferric oxide whispers of water in the red dust. This global map refines future landing sites.
03 June 2013, 10:28 AM ET
New research on a bead from a burial ground in Egypt finds that it dates back to ~3350 BC (prior to the Egyptian iron age) and is rich in nickel, indicating a meteoritic origin.
03 June 2013, 09:39 AM ET
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) will open a new eye on a mostly unexplored region of the Sun that drives the solar wind and brings 'hell-fire' to to the star's upper atmosphere. A launch in late June 2013 is expected.
31 May 2013, 04:11 PM ET
SpaceX Senior Engineer Garrett Reisman (former NASA Shuttle astronaut) is helping to get the U.S. back into the manned spaceflight business. He is tasked with retrofitting the SpaceX rocket/capsule to carry humans.
31 May 2013, 02:26 PM ET
Seeing takes place in the brain. Though one blogger claims to see a 'rat' in one of NASA's thousands of surface photos, it's just a case of wishful seeing scientifically termed: Pareidolia.
31 May 2013, 09:38 AM ET
The space rock is ~1.7 miles in diameter and passed within 3.6 million miles of Earth on May 31th, 2013. Gianluca Masi of The Virtual Telescope Project snapped imagery of the asteroid on May 30th, 2013. (Video looped twice)
31 May 2013, 09:34 AM ET
Asteroid 1998 QE2 is 1.7 miles in diameter, making it a very good skywatching subject. People with large backyard telescopes can point there telescopes to the skies from May 30th to June 4th to catch see the space rock tumble across the sky.
30 May 2013, 04:53 PM ET
After Earth's lead actor/producer and his co-star son Jaden share their view of an Earth that has 'kicked out" its human inhabitants as punishment for their mistreatment. Also, fmr. NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman opines on the movie's spaceship.
30 May 2013, 04:34 PM ET
Radar imagery of space rock 1998 QE2 – 1.7 miles in diameter – shows it has a ~2000 foot wide satellite. The 'binary asteroid' will makes its closest approach to Earth on May 31st, 2013 at a range of 3.6 million miles.
30 May 2013, 01:46 PM ET
Astronauts on long interplanetary trips will face at least two kinds of radiation hazards. The Mars Science Lab’s Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) has quantified the risk. Crews could get much more than the current accepted career dose.
30 May 2013, 11:07 AM ET
Asteroid 1998 QE2 – nearly 1.7 miles in diameter – will makes its closest approach to Earth on May 31st, 2013, sailing within 3.6 million miles of Earth. Arecibo and Goldstone Radio Observatories will provide radar images of the drifting space rock.
30 May 2013, 10:30 AM ET
Check out our exclusive clip from the Hallmark Channel's 'Space Warriors', a film about a team of kids competing at space camp for a ride on the next Shuttle into space.
29 May 2013, 02:46 PM ET
Planetary Resources ARKYD is a crowdfunded space telescope that will not only allow community driven space viewing, but the ability to take a 'Space Selfies' using an onboard video screen and camera arm.
29 May 2013, 01:50 PM ET
Sun-like stars will blow off much of their atmospheres into space as they die. But ESO VLT observations of the cluster NGC 6752 show that most stars are low in sodium and do not make it to that 'puff-out' stage.
29 May 2013, 10:48 AM ET
Professional programmer Karl Sanford wrote a program to compile images from Sol 0 (August 8th, 2012) through Sol 281 (May 21st, 2013) from the Mars Science Laboratory website.
29 May 2013, 10:33 AM ET
Massive 'hot Jupiters', gas giants that orbit close to their stars, are usually tidally locked, which means they have a permanent day side and permanent night side. The extreme differences in temperatures on the two sides drive powerful storms.
29 May 2013, 10:24 AM ET
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser may look like a miniature Space Shuttle, but the space craft's design includes a number of advances over NASA's former fleet of crew vehicles.
28 May 2013, 04:42 PM ET
Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano launched to the International Space Station on May 28th, 2013.
28 May 2013, 07:24 AM ET
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden flew a Dream Chaser simulator during a tour of the Dryden Flight Research Center on May 22.
28 May 2013, 06:54 AM ET
Astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Telescope have observed the exotic star, called SGR 0418, with traits that are not typical for previously observed magnetars. Most magnetars have magnetic fields 10 to 1000 times stronger at their surface.
24 May 2013, 04:33 PM ET
This flight simulator modeled from the Viper spacecraft featured in the Battlestar Galactica television show can flip and spin completely in any direction.
24 May 2013, 01:06 PM ET
Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years show that cold gas to power stars spirals into the cores of galaxies along spiral filaments.
24 May 2013, 12:15 PM ET
An M5-class flare erupted on the Sun on May 22nd, 2013 and magnetic fields worked their magic with super-heated plasma. The flare is seen in a combination of extreme ultraviolet light (at 171 and 304 Angstroms) by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
24 May 2013, 11:06 AM ET
The world's largest LEGO model, a massive Star Wars X-Wing spaceship, was displayed in New York's Times Square Thursday. The spectacular structure consists of more than 5.3 million of the company's multi-colored plastic bricks.
24 May 2013, 11:03 AM ET
A star-studded celebrity auction for the charity amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, raises over 25 million dollars (19 million euros) at the Cannes film festival, with one lucky bidder winning the chance to fly into space with Leonardo DiCaprio
24 May 2013, 09:57 AM ET
The Expedition 35 commander demonstrates how astronauts shave on the International Space Station.
23 May 2013, 01:18 PM ET
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will fill the role for Expedition 36 and 27 aboard the International Space Station. He explains what his position is tasked with.
23 May 2013, 11:27 AM ET
A compact white dwarf star exerts enough gravitational pull to extract matter from its binary companion nearly a million miles away, accelerating the companion's spin to blast tight beacons of radio frequency energy across the universe.
23 May 2013, 10:56 AM ET
Helium (blue), hydrogen (red) and oxygen (green) emissions are derived from new Hubble Space Telescope data and used to create this three dimensional model. Found in the constellation of Lyra. Our Sun will share a similar fate in ~5 billion years.
22 May 2013, 06:57 PM ET
Since 1998, the European Southern Observatory's VLT has returned spectacular imagery full of highly useful data. Many astronomers believe these are some of the best ground-based images ever taken, presented here in chronological order.
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