October 20, 2015 Meteor shower created by Halley’s Comet peaks tonight A meteor shower spawned by history’s most famous comet will peak this weekend, and the show could be dazzling for observers with clear skies, experts say.
October 20, 2015 Distance between Earth and sun redefined The International Astronomical Union has voted unanimously to redefine the astronomical unit, the conventional unit of length based on the distance between the Earth and the sun.
October 20, 2015 One man's ashes will fly by Pluto on Tuesday On Feb. 18, 1930, a young astronomer poring over a series of images of the sky, taken from a telescope at Arizona's Lowell Observatory, spotted movement among some 150,000 stars, reports Space.com.
October 20, 2015 Scientists spot a heart, whale on Pluto NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to pass within 7,750 miles of Pluto on Tuesday, and the probe has now sent us our closest view yet of the dwarf planet.
October 20, 2015 Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope website taken down in apparent cyberattack An apparent cyberattack Sunday temporarily disrupted the main website of Thirty Meter Telescope, the organization trying to construct one of the world's largest telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island.
October 20, 2015 America's first one-year space voyage has astronaut excited A NASA astronaut is getting ready to be the first American to spend a continuous year in space, and he is excited.
October 20, 2015 Search for Mars life starts on Earth Frigid lakes bombarded by UV radiation and boiling, acidic springs are some of the otherworldly Earth environments where scientists plan to hunt for clues to life on Mars
October 20, 2015 Epic big bang discovery might just be space dust One of the most exciting astrophysics discoveries in recent memory may be a mirage.
October 20, 2015 DARPA wants to test satellite repair droids in orbit The United States military's high-technology branch is hoping to test out on-orbit satellite servicing in orbit in the next five years.
October 20, 2015 Falling on the moon: How much gravity do astronauts really need? For all the heroics of space travel, life as an astronaut comes with an array of indignities.