October 20, 2015 Second total lunar eclipse of year coming up Wednesday, North America gets prime viewing If you missed April's total eclipse of the moon, now's your chance.
October 20, 2015 India puts spacecraft into orbit around Mars India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday morning and catapulting the country into an elite club of deep-space explorers.
October 20, 2015 NASA's robot army of 'swarmies' could explore other planets They may look like remote-controlled toy trucks, but a troop of new NASA robots could one day race across distant planets as a sort of space exploration vanguard.
October 20, 2015 Jupiter's icy moon Europa: Best bet for alien life? WASHINGTON — Jupiter's moon Europa doesn't look like a particularly inviting place for life to thrive; the icy satellite is nearly 500 million miles (800 million kilometers) from the sun, on average.
October 20, 2015 Gullies on Mars carved by dry ice, not water Running water didn't create the channels that crisscross the surface of the Red Planet, a new study suggests.
October 20, 2015 UAE plans first Arab spaceship to Mars in 7 years Having scaled the heights of Earth with the world's tallest tower, the United Arab Emirates is now aiming for the stars, or just a little bit closer, with an ambitions trip to Mars.
October 20, 2015 Ancient asteroid destroyer finally found, and it's a new kind of meteorite For 50 years, scientists have wondered what annihilated the ancestor of L-chondrites, the roof-smashing, head-bonking meteorites that frequently pummel Earth
October 20, 2015 Space telescope reveals weird star cluster conundrum We thought we had star formation mechanisms pinned down, but according to new observations of two star clusters, it seems our understanding of how stars are born is less than stellar.
October 20, 2015 Rock sample taken by NASA's Mars rover could yield new chemical, mineral finds Samples of Martian rock powder taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover this week could reveal new chemical and mineral elements on the red planet, team members say.
October 20, 2015 US astronauts should use trampolines to get into space, Russian official says A Russian official angered over new sanctions that the United States imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis is suggesting that American astronauts get to the International Space Station by using trampolines instead of rockets.
