October 21, 2015 Mars mystery: has Curiosity rover made big discovery? NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery "for the history books," but we'll have to wait a few weeks to find out what the new Red Planet find may be.
October 21, 2015 NASA testing 'interplanetary Internet' NASA and the European Space Agency have tested out a prototype system that may one day help enable Internet-like communications between Earth and robots on another planet.
October 21, 2015 Soyuz spacecraft launches 32 fish, hippo to space station A Soyuz rocket launched an American astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts and 32 small fish into orbit early Tuesday morning.
October 21, 2015 Curiosity finds signs of ancient stream on Mars The NASA rover Curiosity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once flowed on Mars -- a find that the mission's chief scientist called exciting.
October 21, 2015 Multicolored UFOs over England? Mystery solved Local UFO enthusiasts were abuzz with speculation about lights hovering above open fields -- but after about a week of research, investigators concluded that the UFO was a toy plane.
October 21, 2015 Very close encounter: Enormous asteroid to zip between Earth and moon Wednesday An asteroid 100 feet wide is set to squeak past the Earth early Wednesday evening, soaring fewer than 218,000 miles from our planet -- slightly closer than the orbit of the moon itself.
October 21, 2015 It's showtime for Pluto; prepare to be amazed by NASA flyby Pluto, reveal thyself, and Earthlings, enjoy the show.
October 21, 2015 Solar Impulse 2 takes off on epic five-day Pacific flight Solar Impulse 2 has embarked on the most daunting leg of its epic journey around the world. The single-seater solar-powered plane took off from Nanjing, China, Saturday, the start of a grueling 5,079-mile, five-day flight across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii.
October 21, 2015 Hubble Space Telescope marks 25th anniversary in orbit this week One of NASA's crowning glories, the Hubble Space Telescope, marks its 25th anniversary this week.
October 21, 2015 Thanksgiving in zero-g: Space station astronauts enjoy 'traditional' dishes Like most Americans back on the ground, astronauts aboard the International Space Station will celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast: NASA food scientists have created zero-g versions of classic Thanksgiving dishes for this week's celebration.
