1 dead 1 injured after crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane - a craft intended to carry tourists on suborbital flights - exploded and crashed during a test flight Friday.

Extraordinary shot of moon’s far side and Earth, from Chang’e

China’s Chang'e 5 spacecraft rounded the lunar far side earlier this week, on the return leg of its journey to the moon. It's now safely back on Earth.

Star system like a wheel within a wheel

Scientists found dust and gas flowing from an outer disk around a star toward a possible second, smaller disk around a second star. Planets may be forming here!

Success in the search for quiet, distant quasars

If quasars weren't so luminous, we couldn't see them so far away in space and time. But how about modest quasars, also far away? Astronomers say they've found some.

Spectacular explosion at launch for Antares rocket

Watch the NASATV live broadcast of the catastrophic launch failure. The rocket was bound for the International Space Station, loaded with supplies.

Exciting Rosetta space mission inspires a magical short film

A very good 7-minute film, called Ambition. It's not like any film about space exploration you've ever seen. The Rosetta comet mission lies at its heart.

A week of solar flares at one giant sunspot

The biggest sunspot on the face of the sun in more than two decades erupted on October 26 with its sixth substantial flare in a week.

Cool composite of Comet Siding Spring near Mars

Hubble image of close passage of Comet Siding Spring near Mars. The comet passed Mars at about a third the distance between Earth and the moon on October 19.

Starquake sets magnetar ringing like a bell

Astronomers have observed signals from a highly magnetized neutron star, indicating starquakes that set the neutron star ringing like a bell.

Video: 3D flight over Mars chaotic terrain

Get out your 3D glasses and watch a flyover of the weird landforms on Mars know as chaotic terrain.

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