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October 21, 2015

Watch live: Asteroid the size of three football fields to hurtle past Earth

A gigantic asteroid nearly 900 feet wide will race past planet Earth tonight, a harmless but sobering reminder of the dangers posed by such interplanetary visitors.

October 21, 2015

Failure to launch? Trouble for Virgin Galactic, Spaceport America

Built with $212 million in state taxpayer money, Spaceport America is drawing heat from lawmakers -- and a just-released book questions whether anchor tenant Virgin Galactic will ever get off the ground.

October 21, 2015

How flying snakes are like UFOs

A flying snake flattens out into a weird flying-saucer shape in order to get some extra airtime, new research suggests

October 21, 2015

Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days in orbit

The U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has now circled Earth for more than 400 days on a hush-hush mission that is creeping closer and closer to the vehicle's orbital longevity record.

October 21, 2015

Five NASA Earth-science missions blasting off in 2014

The launch of a precipitation-measuring satellite next month kicks off a busy year for NASA's Earth-observation program.

October 21, 2015

Astronauts make rare Christmas Eve spacewalk

Two space station astronauts popped in a new pump during a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk Tuesday, eager to wrap up urgent repairs to a cooling system.

October 21, 2015

Former Apollo 8 astronaut marks anniversary of 1968 Christmas Eve broadcast to Earth

Millions tuned in on Dec. 24, 1968, when Commander Frank Borman, Bill Anders and James Lovell took turns reading from the Book of Genesis as the Apollo 8 orbited the moon.

October 21, 2015

Snorkels in space: NASA's 'MacGyver' solution to protect spacewalking astronauts

After a spacewalking astronaut nearly drowned in his helmet in July, NASA has a plan to protect its crew when they venture into the vacuum of space this weekend: snorkels and towels.

October 21, 2015

NASA orders urgent spacewalks to fix space station

NASA has ordered up a series of urgent spacewalks to fix a broken cooling line at the International Space Station.

October 21, 2015

Rest in pieces: Comet ISON officially dead, Sun chief suspect

Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was barely a year old.