October 20, 2015 NASA wants to send another rover to Mars in 2020 NASA says it wants to launch another mega-rover to Mars modeled after the wildly popular Curiosity.
October 20, 2015 A fossil? A monolith? Jimmy Hoffa? Mars rover finds ... something NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars is busily grinding out science data — and has likely relayed some provocative findings — but mum's the word from scientists on the mission.
October 20, 2015 Total solar eclipse Tues: Watch it live online The total solar eclipse on Tues,, Nov. 13, may only be visible from slivers of northern Australia and a swathe of open ocean, but you don't have to make an epic journey see it.
October 20, 2015 Judge sides with NASA lab in work discrimination case that touched on intelligent design A California judge has tentatively ruled in favor of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former computer specialist who alleged he was singled out in ...
October 20, 2015 Final 10-mile trek for space shuttle Atlantis Space shuttle Atlantis' final journey to retirement is down broad industrial avenues, most of them off-limits to the public. So Friday's trek won't replicate the narrow, stop-and-go turns Endeavour encountered last month while navigating downtown Los Angeles.
October 20, 2015 True Halloween horror stories from space There's nothing like a good horror story in space. So allow me to serve as your cosmic Crypt Keeper for a few minutes, while I run though a few of the ones that get under my skin.
October 20, 2015 'Space buddha' statue may be a fake A supposed Buddhist statue allegedly carved from a meteorite 1,000 years ago may not be as ancient as suspected, according to a Buddhism expert who argues that the statue may be a 20th-century fake.
October 16, 2015 NASA's Scott Kelly breaks US record for most days in space Waking up hundreds of miles above the Himalayas, astronaut Scott Kelly broke the U.S. record Friday for the most time spent in space with 383 days.
October 16, 2015 New maps of Jupiter offer plenty of surprises Among other things, the maps have revealed a rare wave just north of the planet's equator
October 16, 2015 Sign of alien life? Kepler telescope spots strange star Astronomers are curious about this star because it is old and demonstrating an unusual flickering behavior