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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.

October 20, 2015

Huge asteroid to fly past Earth this month

A big asteroid will cruise by Earth at the end of the month, making its closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries.

October 20, 2015

Faulty wheel jeopardizes Kepler space telescope's quest for alien life

A faulty steering apparatus may bring an early end to NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a $600 million tool in the space agency’s quest for life in the universe.

October 20, 2015

Colossal solar flare, strongest of 2013, shoots from sun

The sun unleashed a colossal Mother's Day solar flare on Sunday in what has become the most powerful solar eruption of the year.

October 20, 2015

Emergency spacewalk required to fix leaky space station, NASA says

An emergency spacewalk is needed to resolve a radiator leaking small white flakes of ammonia into the cold vacuum of space, NASA said Friday afternoon.

October 20, 2015

Elon Musk's SpaceX signs lease at NM spaceport

Another space industry heavyweight has signed on to use New Mexico's Spaceport America -- Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, Gov. Susana Martinez announced Tuesday.

October 20, 2015

Astronaut spies 'bullet hole' in space station

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have dodged a cosmic bullet ... literally.

October 20, 2015

Search for Northern Lights on Saturn takes off

Astronomers using an observatory in Hawaii kicked off a month-long campaign to study the northern lights on Saturn study Sunday (April 21) in a live webcast from Hawaii's iconic Keck Observatory.

October 20, 2015

Private Mars colony won't seek life on Red Planet

A private Mars colony project will do its best to avoid disturbing potential Red Planet life rather than aggressively hunt it down.