October 20, 2015 Scientists spark auroras in a bottle for traveling Northern Lights show The glowing colors and dancing lines of the Northern Lights could soon appear inside an educational institution near you.
October 20, 2015 Cassini spacecraft photographs Earth from 900 million miles away High above the planet Saturn on Friday, Cassini took photographs of the backlit planet’s rings and a twinkling Earth. If you looked at the skies, chances are you were photographed from space from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, almost a billion miles away.
October 20, 2015 Apollo, redux? Boeing unveils next space capsule Boeing on Monday unveiled the company’s first ever full-size spacecraft -- a Hershey’s Kiss-shaped vehicle that can fly up to seven astronauts into space.
October 20, 2015 Tiny, 12-mile-wide moon found circling Neptune by Hubble telescope In the inky black of space, at the farthest reaches of the solar system, a tiny white blemish lies near the greenish-blue surface of Neptune: a new moon.
October 20, 2015 NASA launches satellite to explore little-studied region of the sun Mission controllers clapped after receiving word that Iris separated from the rocket as planned and unfurled its solar panels, ready to begin its two-year mission.
October 20, 2015 NASA launching new sun-watching probe tonight: watch it live NASA will launch its newest solar observatory tonight, kicking off a two-year mission to study how energy moves around the active sun.
October 20, 2015 NASA seeking rock stars to help locate asteroids NASA this week entreated amateur astronomers the world over in helping to identify the smaller asteroids lurking about space that could wipe out a city or worse upon impact with Earth.
October 20, 2015 Photo shows 'UFO' above medieval castle What started out as a casual sightseeing trip to a historic castle in the Netherlands took a bizarre turn for one Dutch woman, who claims she may have spotted some kind of UFO.
October 20, 2015 Spaced out UFO fan sparks Internet frenzy over frozen 'alien' A Chinese man has posted photographs of him posing next to an 'alien' which he claims to have trapped after it crash landed.
October 20, 2015 NASA rover Curiosity drills into second Martian rock; prepares to study it in detail NASA's Curiosity rover drills again.
