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Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been de...

Huge Chunk of Russia Meteorite Pulled from Lake

Divers raised a coffee-table-size chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteorite from its muddy home at the bottom of Russia 's Lake Chebarku...

Superbright Supernovas' Cause Potentially Revealed

The cause of a mysterious, long-lasting, superbright form of supernova , the most energetic stellar explosion in the universe, may now ...

Russia's Medvedev fires space agency chief

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the country's space agency ( Roskosmos ) chief Vladimir Popovkin...

Astronaut Scott Carpenter, fourth American in space, dies at 88

By Keith Coffman DENVER | Th...

Astronaut Scott Carpenter, fourth American in space, dies at 88

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Astronaut Scott Carpenter , who in 1962 became the fourth American in space and the second to orbit...

Snorkeler finds rare giant oarfish off California coast

The crew of sailing school vessel Tole Mour and Catalina Island Marine...

Hawaii's Kauai Island moves to curb gene-altered crops, pesticide testing

By Christopher D'Angelo Lihue, Hawaii | Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:18am EDT (Re...

Shuttle lands at California air base

(CNN) -- Space shuttle Endeavour landed safely Sunday afternoon at California's Edwards Air Force Base after NASA waved off two opportu...

iReporters watch planets, moon align

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Giant chunk of Russian meteor raised from the lake

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian scientists have recovered a giant chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor from the bottom of the lake it crashed into. ...

Snorkeler finds rare giant oarfish off California coast

By Tim Gaynor (Reuters) - A California marine instructor's leisurely weekend snorkel turned into the discovery of a lifetime when ...

Prof Peter Higgs did not know he had won Nobel Prize - BBC News

11 October 2013 Last updated at 07:18 ET Prof Higgs was speaking in public for the first time since winning the Nobel Prize for Phys...

NASA admits mistake in banning Chinese student -- but likely too late to help - Fox News

Misapplication of a federal law meant to stem the theft of American technological know-how has kept several Chinese scientists and at leas...

NASA spacecraft flies by Earth en route to Jupiter - Las Vegas Sun

The Associated Press Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 | 12:32 a.m. NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft will swing by Earth for one last visit b...

Watery asteroid discovered in dying star points to habitable exoplanets - Phys.Org

Home Space & Earth Astronomy October 10, 2013 Oct 10, 2013 Enlarge Artist's impression of a rocky and water-rich aster...