October 21, 2015 Hubble telescope spots 'cosmic caterpillar' 6 trillion miles long The Hubble Space Telescope has captured what scienitsts are describing as a "cosmic caterpillar" nearly 6 trillion miles long slinking through deepspace.
October 21, 2015 Mars as big as the moon? Stargazing hoax hits Facebook After a two-year hiatus, the infamous Mars Hoax has once again reared its head.
October 21, 2015 Sun's 2013 solar activity peak weakest in 100 years Though the sun is currently in the peak year of its 11-year solar weather cycle, our closest star has been rather quiet over all, scientists say.
October 21, 2015 NASA's next Mars rover to search for E.T. in 2020 NASA's next Mars rover should hunt for signs of past Red Planet life and collect samples for eventual return to Earth, a team of mission planners announced.
October 21, 2015 'One giant leap' toward a NASA Armstrong center? Neil Armstrong's name is attached to a lunar crater, an asteroid, more than a dozen schools and a museum, but not a single NASA facility is christened in honor of the man whose "giant leap" made him the first to walk on the moon. But all that could soon change.
October 21, 2015 Curiosity Rover leaving 'Mars rat' behind NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will apparently perform no follow-up studies of a Red Planet rock that resembles a rodent, dealing a blow to the nascent field of Martian mammalogy.
October 21, 2015 Lost Apollo 11 moon dust found in storage Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.
October 21, 2015 Astronaut makes music video to David Bowie song aboard International Space Station In an online video, astronaut Chris Hadfield sings the David Bowie song "Space Oddity" while floating around in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.
October 21, 2015 Russian space junk almost destroys NASA telescope A high-tech NASA telescope in orbit escaped a potentially disastrous collision with a Soviet-era Russian spy satellite this month in a close call that highlights the growing threat of orbital debris around Earth. NASA's $690 million Fermi
October 21, 2015 Russia launches animals into space on one-month journey An intrepid critter crew of geckos, mice and gerbils and other animals launched into orbit Friday to begin a month-long Russian experiment to study how space travel affects living creatures.
