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October 20, 2015

NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to get up close and personal with dwarf planet Ceres

A NASA spacecraft is preparing to rendezvous with the largest object in the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter.

October 20, 2015

SpaceX scraps observatory launch due to high winds

Dangerously high wind is keeping a deep-space observatory grounded for yet another day.

October 20, 2015

SpaceX supply ship arrives at space station with groceries, belated Christmas presents

A shipment of much-needed groceries and belated Christmas presents has finally arrived at the International Space Station.

October 20, 2015

SpaceX scraps early morning launch to International Space Station

SpaceX has called off its flight to the International Space Station.

October 20, 2015

America's first one-year space voyage has astronaut excited

A NASA astronaut is getting ready to be the first American to spend a continuous year in space, and he is excited.

October 20, 2015

SpaceX will attempt to land a rocket on a gigantic floating lander pad this Friday

A few months back, Elon Musk announced SpaceX’s latest crazy plan: Instead of landing its Falcon 9 rockets on solid ground, the company wants to land them at sea, on top of a massive floating platform.

October 20, 2015

European comet lander may wake up from space slumber

Europe's Philae comet lander may be about to wake up from its lengthy, unplanned slumber.

October 20, 2015

NASA’s new Orion spacecraft lifts off on first test flight

After scrubbing the initial launch on Thursday, NASA’s new Orion spacecraft made its inaugural test flight on Friday, lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 7:05 a.m. ET.

October 20, 2015

New crew arrives at International Space Station

A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts from Russia, the United States and Italy docked Monday with the International Space Station, less than six hours after launching from Russia's manned space facility in Kazakhstan.

October 20, 2015

Earth's magnetic field could flip in our lifetime

A pilot looking down at her plane controls and realizing magnetic north is hovering somewhere over Antarctica may sound like a scene from a science-fiction movie, but new research suggests the idea isn't so far-fetched in the relatively near future