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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

NASA beams Mona Lisa to moon with laser

Call it the ultimate in high art: Using a well-timed laser, NASA scientists have beamed a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, to a powerful spacecraft orbiting the moon.

October 21, 2015

Warp speed: what hyperspace would REALLY look like

The science fiction vision of stars flashing by as streaks when spaceships travel faster than light isn't what the scene would actually look like, a team of physics students says.

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

Curiosity rover finds 'flower' on Mars

New photos of Mars from NASA's Curiosity rover have sparked a buzz of discussion over an odd formation that some have dubbed a "flower" embedded in a Martian rock.

October 21, 2015

Space radiation may harm astronaut brains

Radiation in space might harm the brains of astronauts in deep space by accelerating the development of Alzheimer's disease, a new study on mice suggests.

October 21, 2015

Earth is closer to the sun today than in rest of 2013

If the sun looks a little larger than usual today, you're not seeing things. Jan. 2 marks the the point in Earth's orbit at which it is closest to the sun.

October 21, 2015

NASA's next Mars mission readies for 2013 launch

NASA's next mission to the Red Planet is undergoing extensive testing in preparation for its launch next year.

October 21, 2015

Twin NASA spacecraft to crash into mountain on the moon

Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin NASA spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish.

October 21, 2015

The next Earth? 7 possibly habitable worlds identified

A new catalog aims to list all the known planets in the galaxy that could potentially be habitable to life.