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Christmas 'full cold moon' expected for first time since 1977
Nasa says 'full cold moon' will peak at 23:11GMT.
Nasa suspends its next mission to Mars by up to two years because of leaky equipment
The US space agency has said that a seismometer has ended the chance of a launch in March 2016
Mash on Mars? Nasa wants to grow potatoes on Red Planet while saving lives on Earth
'The extraordinary efforts of the team have set the bar for extra-terrestrial farming'.
Elon Musk's SpaceX reusable orbital rocket Falcon 9 makes historic landing in Florida
It is for the first time in history that an orbital rocket has successfully achieved a ground landing.
ISS: Astronaut Tim Peake says life in space 'absolutely spectacular'
Peake says after some initial discomfort his body has got used to weightlessness in space.
Cosmic Star Wars celebration: Force Awakens within double-bladed lightsaber-wielding newborn star
Hubble Space Telescope spots The Force Awakening in a newborn star.
2003 SD220: Asteroid to flyby Earth on Christmas Eve in first of five encounters
Flyby will be from a safe distance of 6.7 million miles away from Earth.
Nasa to launch sounding rocket Fortis to study extra galactic dust
Nasa is preparing to launch a rocket into space to study The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy.
Tim Peake: British astronaut welcomed aboard ISS
British astronaut Peake starts his six-month mission on the International Space Station.
Tim Peake: Watch British astronaut blast off to the International Space Station
Peake successfully launched into space at 11.03am with fellow astronauts Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko.
Astronomers battle through clouds and haze to find water on exoplanets
Researchers have found water on planets outside of the solar system, which had previously been blocked by clouds.
The search for aliens: Should fear of more advanced ET beings stop our search?
The truth is out there, but should we be looking for it?
Mysterious hackers attempting to bring down entire internet by DDoS-ing critical servers
Entity is launching DDoS attacks against crucial internet infrastructure supporting top level domains.
Google: Controversial D-Wave quantum computer works and is 100 million times faster than PCs today
Google has released research showing that D-Wave resoundingly beat a conventional computer on tests.
Lockheed Martin demonstrates drone air traffic control using UAVs to fight fires
Company showed multiple UAVs working together in mid-air to demonstrate how drones can be used safely.
Twin civilisations? How life on an exoplanet could spread to its neighbour
What if two alien civilisations were close enough to contact one another?
Sun 'capable' of superflare with energy of a billion megaton bombs, spelling disaster for Earth
Sun has the potential to release solar flares 1,000 times greater than ever recorded.
Nasa releases video of R5 Valkyrie humanoid robot dancing to techno music
Nasa releases video showing how the R5 Valkyrie robot is able to walk, run, balance and emulate humans.
Nasa delivers Microsoft Hololens augmented reality headset to the ISS
Astronauts aboard ISS to receive Microsoft HoloLenses as part of Nasa's latest resupply mission.
Drone add-on scans disaster zones for heartbeats and breathing to locate survivors
IntelliNet Sensors' Lynx6-A module can clip on to any small drone to increase search and rescue efforts.
Alien megastructure: Nasa believes Dyson sphere likely to be comets orbiting KIC 8462852 star
Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope has given the space agency a different perspective.
JFK wanted to go to Mars not the Moon – but engineers told him it was 'a little bit too far'
Buzz Aldrin reveals John F Kennedy's ambitious plan to go to Mars in the 1960s.
Nasa wants a global wildfire early warning network of 200 sensors on satellites
Nasa is working on a network of space-based sensors called FireSat to detect fires worldwide 24/7.
Nasa uses new OCO2 satellite to track rising carbon dioxide levels
The tools include the new experimental Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), which was launched in 2014.
Nasa demonstrates 'future of space exploration' Super Ball Bot prototype
Video shows examples of the robot's impact, robustness and locomotion.
The five most Earth-like exoplanets (so far)
Which exoplanets are similar enough to the Earth that they could actually be habitable?
Nasa gives R5 Valkyrie humanoid robot to MIT, Northeastern to develop software for Mars
Nasa wants MIT Csail and Northeastern University to prep Valkyrie to carry out autonomous experiments on Mars.
Out of this world: ISS astronaut Kjell Lindgren treats Twitter followers to spectacular images of Earth from space
Lindgren Tweets a wide array of images of views from all over the world
Seven spectacular weather events – and what causes them
Weather is the response of the atmosphere to the uneven pattern of heat energy that it receives.
Watch live online: Leonid meteor shower 2015 to peak in early hours of 18 November
Cloudy skies could obstruct the annual display.