October 21, 2015 First evidence of comet striking Earth found in Egypt A team of scientists claims to have found the first-ever definitive evidence of a comet striking Earth.
October 21, 2015 NASA finds plastic ingredient on Saturn's moon Titan For the first time, a chemical essential for the creation of plastic on Earth has been found in a far-off part of the solar system: Saturn's largest Titan.
October 21, 2015 Iran mulls Persian cat as next animal astronaut Iran's hunt for its next animal astronaut may turn to the distinctive and locally named Persian cat, an official said Monday, in another possible step by the country's ambitious aerospace program that has also raised Western concerns about spillover military applications.
October 21, 2015 NASA set to explore moon's mysterious glow with LADEE mission NASA is poised to return to the moon. An unmanned rocket is scheduled to blast off late Friday night from Virginia's Eastern Shore with a robotic explorer that will study the lunar atmosphere and dust.
October 21, 2015 Phoenix 'UFO' revealed as NASA experiment Earlier this week a mysterious, glowing teardrop-shaped object was seen high in the sky above Phoenix. Was it a bird? Was it a plane? Or was it NASA?
October 21, 2015 Meet the next Martians: Aspiring Red Planet colonists About a hundred “aspiring Martians” from across the country came together over the weekend for a “Million Martian Meeting” -- applicants for the Mars One project, an ambitious ten-year plan for a one-way trip to colonize the Red Planet.
October 21, 2015 Hubble telescope helps solve galaxy-evolution mystery New observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers crack a longstanding puzzle about galaxy evolution.
October 21, 2015 Blast off! Chinese astronauts launch into orbit A Chinese rocket roared into space Tuesday carrying a crew of three is on its way to the nation's space module orbiting Earth.
October 21, 2015 Surprise! Moon craters may hold ancient asteroid pieces Twenty-five percent of the moon's impact craters may retain substantial remnants of the asteroids that created them, a new study finds.
October 21, 2015 'Mars rat' spied by NASA's Curiosity rover A photo from the Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals the dusty orange, rock-strewn surface of the Red Planet -- and captured a dusty orange rodent hiding among the stones, starry-eyed enthusiasts claim
