MOON

The rover finds proof water once flowed on Mars, hot pink slugs turn up in Australia, and Splenda is not as innocuous as you might think.

Here's a video of an explosion on the moon caused by a meteoroid March 17: It could have been viewed from Earth without a telescope, NASA said.

Luckily, the massive asteroid is expected to pass by at a comfortable distance of at least 3.6 million miles away.

Lunar rock samples bear a chemical fingerprint that suggests the Moon once had traces of water that originate from the asteroid belt near Jupiter.

If you're on the islands of French Polynesia or walking about in the Australian outback, you may get a glimpse of a ring-shaped eclipse Friday morning.

Thursday's partial eclipse only involves a small sliver of the lunar disc, so there's probably not going to be a dramatic pink moon on display.

A "pink" full moon will be visible in Thursday night's sky.

Some conspiracy theorists think American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick staged the Apollo moon landings.

Science journals, astronauts and TV astronomers have all found ways to get a laugh on April 1.

Areas from Maine to Washington, D.C., should see freezing rain or snow starting Monday evening, likely lasting into Tuesday.

A newly discovered asteroid similar to the big chunk that struck Russia two weeks ago is set to pass Earth on Tuesday morning.

Fluctuating lunar calendar celebrations make gauging Chinese factory output in the first two months of 2013 a challenge.

Half of the residents of China's capital have left for vacation during the nation's biggest travel season. This is what Beijing looks like.

An asteroid is about to give Earth a record-breaking close shave, as it comes closer to the planet than any asteroid has before -- even closer than many satellites.

Deep Space Industries said Tuesday that it plans to start launching its 55-pound FireFly spacecraft in 2015.

The Russian Space Agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015. This will be Russia’s first unmanned lunar since the Soviet era.

Observations of near-Earth asteroid Apophis during this pass could help scientists refine their calculations for closer shaves in 2029 and 2036.

Neil Armstrong lied about inventing his famous "one small step" line on the spot, according to a new biopic.

Stargazers next fall may find the moon is not the brightest object in the night sky. As the newly discovered Comet ISON passes close to the sun between October and December next year, it indeed might become bright enough to outshine the moon.

Two NASA scientific probes named Ebb and Flow are headed for a fateful meeting with a lunar mountain on Monday evening.

NASA keeps tabs on Toutatis and other celestial objects that make close fly-bys of Earth, but the odds of any object devastating the planet within the next few centuries are very small.