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October 21, 2015

Congress says no to asteroids, yes to moon landing

A draft spending bill from the House would drop funding for President Obama's proposed asteroid retrieval project and steer funding back toward lunar exploration.

October 21, 2015

Meteorite crashes through roof in Connecticut, scientist says

A Yale scientist says a rock that crashed through the roof of a home in Wolcott was a meteorite.

October 21, 2015

Meteorite crater under Iowa confirmed in new images

Buried beneath the rocks, dirt, buildings and roads of the city of Decorah, Iowa, lies a 470 million-year-old meteorite crater.

October 21, 2015

Earth safe from asteroid flyby next week

An asteroid will give Earth a historically close shave next week, but there's no chance that the space rock will slam into our planet on this pass, experts say.

October 21, 2015

2013 comet may be brightest ever seen

Excitement continues to rise among both professional and amateur astronomers about Comet ISON, which on Nov.

October 21, 2015

International Space Station safe from orbiting space debris

Russia's Mission Control Center dropped an earlier plan to move the International Space Station into a different orbit to avoid collision with space debris.

October 21, 2015

Philae lander, like Philae obelisk, is a window to the past

Benjamin Altshuler is on the classics faculty at the University of Oxford and is the current Classics Conclave fellow at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents.

October 21, 2015

'Taste The Stars' dinner menu features real meteorite sauce

A former NASA astronaut has brought a taste of space down to Earth while elevating the concept of space food to new heights.

October 21, 2015

Big asteroid will eclipse bright star early Thurs.

Skywatchers, get ready to see a rare vanishing act — and don't blink.

October 21, 2015

Hubble Space Telescope captures shattering asteroid, at least 10 pieces seen in photos

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first pictures of a disintegrating asteroid.