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October 21, 2015

NASA records giant explosion on moon as boulder crashes at 56,000 mph

The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it.

October 21, 2015

Farming on Mars? NASA ponders food supply for 2030 mission

To establish a sustainable settlement on Earth's solar system neighbor, space travelers will have to learn how to grow food on Mars, experts say.

October 21, 2015

78,000 apply for private Mars colony project

Huge numbers of people on Earth are keen to leave the planet forever and seek a new life homesteading on Mars.

October 21, 2015

Meteor shower from Halley's Comet peaks this weekend

Early Sunday (May 5), just before dawn, we'll have an opportunity to see some of the remnants of the most famous of comets briefly light up the early morning sky.

October 21, 2015

NASA rover to explore… Greenland

NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet, but will take a look at part of our own.

October 21, 2015

Comet strikes may have jump-started life on Earth

Life's building blocks can form in the harsh environment of deep space, a new study suggests, bolstering the odds that a comet or meteorite strike may have jump-started biological evolution on Earth.

October 21, 2015

Russell Crowe found a UFO

“Gladiator” actor Russell Crowe claimed via Twitter to have recorded UFOs flying over Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens earlier this week. And he’s got the videos to prove it.

October 21, 2015

Russian meteor blast recalls massive 1908 'Tunguska event'

The site of Friday's spectacular 10-ton meteor blast is roughly 3,000 miles west of Tunguska, which in 1908 was the site of the largest recorded explosion of a space object plunging to Earth.

October 21, 2015

About 1,100 injured as meteorite hits Russia with force of atomic bomb

A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people.

October 21, 2015

'Extrasolar cartography' could provide rough pictures of alien worlds

Astronomers could one day create rough maps of far-away planets using information taken from starlight reflection, determining the balance of oceans, lands and overhanging clouds.