Dark Energy

Looking back on a year filled with scientific accomplishment

3D Printing

2013: The year in science

The close of 2013 gives us an excellent opportunity, though satiated with holiday feasts, to look back on a year that has been filled with scientific accomplishment.

NASA has been given two ex-spy satellites with optics superior to those of the Hubble Space Telescope seen here (Photo: NASA)

Aircraft

NASA gets two Hubble-class telescopes from the military

NASA has announced the extraordinary gift of two ex-spy satellites that are superior to the Hubble.

At 5:57 a.m. EDT on July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett)

Aircraft

Final Space Shuttle landing ends a remarkable chapter in space exploration

The space shuttle Atlantis touched down today in the final space shuttle mission marking the end of an era - we take a look back at the program.

The European XMM-Newton X-ray telescope in Earth orbit (Image: ESA)

Space Systems

X-ray telescope to shed light on dark energy

The eROSITA X-ray telescope will search for black holes and dark matter, and may help explain why the expansion of the universe is accelerating instead of slowing down.