Tariq Malik

The asteroid 2012 DA14 will give Earth a record-setting close shave on Friday (Feb. 15). The asteroid won't hit Earth, but gives scientists an unprecedented chance to study a near-Earth asteroid.

Auriga is wheeling overhead between 8 and 8:30 p.m. local time.

The unmanned Progress 50 spacecraft arrived at the orbiting lab just three hours after blasting off.

The unmanned Progress 50 cargo ship is packed with 2.9 tons of supplies for space station astronauts.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield rang in the Chinese New Year with amazing photos of China from space.

A solar eruption aimed at Earth on Feb. 9, could spark auroras later this week.

Curiosity drilled about 0.8 inches (2 centimeters) into a Martian rock called John Klein.

One of the new photos zooms straight in on the Seagull Nebula's "head."

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft took its first photos of comet ISON, a potential "comet of the century."

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will unveil the alien planet announcement at 11 a.m. EST.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught video of the monster filament erupting from the sun on Jan. 31.

NASA will honor the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia space disasters.

The photos show Mars at night in visible and ultraviolet light.

Under President Barack Obama, NASA is following a bold mission to send astronauts to an asteroid, and then to Mars.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, celebrates his 83rd birthday today.

Astronomy teacher Josh Lake of Pomfret, Conn., inspired Hubble telescope scientists to create a new cosmic image.

The dark space cloud Lupus 3 may be similar to the cloud that gave birth to Earth's sun.

Even small tweaks to the sun's weather cycle can have a ripple effect on Earth's climate.

It would cost $850 quadrillion to build a real-life Death Star, officials say.

Asteroid Apophis is larger than three football fields and will fly closer to Earth than many satellites.

The potentially dangerous asteroid Apophis is 20 percent wider and 75 percent more massive than scientists thought.

The giant planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut has an extreme orbit that may crash through a dusty wasteland.

The Curiosity rover has snapped photos of a Martian "flower" and "Snake River" on Mars.

Actor William Shatner of "Star Trek" fame used Twitter to talk with an astronaut on the International Space Station.

A single two-year mission to Mars could be enough to create the effect, scientists say.