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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.
November 1, 2014
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.
November 1, 2014
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!
October 31, 2014
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.
October 29, 2014
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.
October 28, 2014
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.
October 28, 2014
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.
October 27, 2014
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.
October 26, 2014
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.
October 23, 2014
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.
October 23, 2014
