October 20, 2015 Pluto may have 10 more undiscovered moons, study suggests A flotilla of 10 or more tiny undiscovered moons might lurk in Pluto's orbit, complicating a spacecraft's planned flyby of the distant dwarf planet in 2015, new simulations suggest.
October 20, 2015 Has dark matter finally been found? Big news coming Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said Sunday.
October 20, 2015 Russian meteorite: Why didn't scientists see it coming? A meteor broke apart over the Ural Mountains in Russia on Friday and rained down fire and debris -- reportedly injuring nearly 1,000 people. So why didn’t scientists see this one coming?
October 20, 2015 Intergalactic crash scene among universe's largest things A glowing cosmic structure millions of light-years long represents the aftermath of the impact of two merging galaxy clusters, researchers say.
October 20, 2015 Where were you when space shuttle Columbia was lost? Where were you ten years ago, when you learned of the accident that killed seven astronauts aboard space shuttle Columbia? Leave a comment and share your stories and memories.
October 20, 2015 How the Columbia shuttle disaster changed spacecraft safety forever Ten years after the devastating Columbia space shuttle accident that took the lives of seven astronauts, NASA is building a new spacecraft that will take humans farther into space than ever before, and will incorporate the safety lessons learned from the disaster that befell the agency Feb.
October 20, 2015 Wow! Dung beetles navigate by the stars Despite having tiny brains, dung beetles are surprisingly decent navigators, able to follow straight paths as they roll poo balls they've collected away from a dung source.
October 20, 2015 Last Full Moon of 2012 Rises Friday The last full moon of 2012 will rise into the night sky this week in a year-ending lunar treat.
October 20, 2015 NASA to crash two probes into the moon Monday Two NASA moon probes will end their gravity-mapping mission in spectacular fashion Monday, crashing intentionally into a cliff near the lunar north pole.
October 20, 2015 Kazakhstan mulls ending Russia's cosmodrome lease The head of Kazakhstan's space agency said Monday that Russia's lease of a launch facility in the Central Asian nation, the only site worldwide currently being used to get astronauts to the International Space Station, may be suspended.
