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Tue, Mar 12, 2013 12:15 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet
The quake was also powerful enough to slightly alter Earth's gravity field under Japan.
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Tue, Mar 12, 2013 11:52 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com
NASA estimates that a low-Earth orbit cloud contains 500,000 objects bigger than a marble and 22,000 larger than a softball.
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Tue, Mar 12, 2013 10:36 AM by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com
NASA will present the results of the analysis of the Martian 'rock powder' collected by the Curiosity rover.
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Tue, Mar 12, 2013 10:00 AM by Joe Rao, SPACE.com
Comet Pan-STARRS and the moon should be visible for about half an hour before they disappear into the haze located near the horizon.
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Mon, Mar 11, 2013 11:18 AM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com
The $1.3 billion telescope array promises to reveal many new secrets of the cosmos.
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Fri, Mar 08, 2013 1:57 PM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com
The recent flurry of asteroid activity comes as discussion grows about a deflection system for near-Earth objects.
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Fri, Mar 08, 2013 11:52 AM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com
The cosmic spectacle should offer scientists a chance to test some of their theories about how black holes pull in mass.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 4:50 PM by Mike Wall, Space.com
Research had estimated that the star is up to 16 billion years old, but that's a problem since the Big Bang occurred about 13.8 billion years ago.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 12:13 PM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com
The finding was nearly a decade in the making, and required repeated precise measurements of rare pairs of binary stars.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 10:50 AM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com
Comets ISON and Pan-STARRS should put on a show for stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 10:27 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com
The rover team views the shutdown as merely a precaution, as Curiosity was designed to withstand such solar outbursts.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 10:03 AM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com
The mission is SpaceX's second of 12 commercial cargo deliveries for NASA under a $1.6 billion agreement.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 11:20 AM by Nina Sen, SPACE.com
Stargazers have captured stunning photos of Comet Pan-STARRS and Lemmon together in the night sky.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 10:40 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com
There is no danger that 2013 ET will hit Earth.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 9:50 AM by Clara Moskowitz, Space.com
The probe has been in orbit around Mercury since March 2011, and the spacecraft has finished mapping the planet's surface.