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October 20, 2015

Weather on Mars surprisingly pleasant, Curiosity rover finds

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is enjoying some nice, warm weather on the Red Planet — and spring hasn't even come to its landing site yet.

October 20, 2015

Republicans pitch new oversight, 10-year term for NASA chief

Citing systemic problems and a lack of vision within NASA, House Republicans have proposed a new board to run the space agency -- helmed by an administrator appointed to a decade-long term.

October 20, 2015

Distance between Earth and sun redefined

The International Astronomical Union has voted unanimously to redefine the astronomical unit, the conventional unit of length based on the distance between the Earth and the sun.

October 20, 2015

Smithsonian launches crowdfunding campaign to save Neil Armstrong's spacesuit from moonwalk

The National Air and Space Museum is launching a crowdfunding campaign to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon.

October 20, 2015

One man's ashes will fly by Pluto on Tuesday

On Feb. 18, 1930, a young astronomer poring over a series of images of the sky, taken from a telescope at Arizona's Lowell Observatory, spotted movement among some 150,000 stars, reports Space.com.

October 20, 2015

Scientists spot a heart, whale on Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to pass within 7,750 miles of Pluto on Tuesday, and the probe has now sent us our closest view yet of the dwarf planet.

October 20, 2015

Pluto just 4 weeks, 20 million miles away for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft; flyby on July 14

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto's doorstep, following an incredible journey of nine years and 3 billion miles.

October 20, 2015

Comet lander Philae awakes from hibernation

The comet lander Philae has awoken from a seven-month hibernation and managed to communicate with Earth for more than a minute, the European Space Agency said Sunday.

October 20, 2015

Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope website taken down in apparent cyberattack

An apparent cyberattack Sunday temporarily disrupted the main website of Thirty Meter Telescope, the organization trying to construct one of the world's largest telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island.

October 20, 2015

SpaceX shipment arrives at space station, brings first espresso maker in orbit from Italy

The SpaceX supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Friday morning, delivering the world's first espresso machine designed exclusively for astronauts.