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The native of DeWitt took part in four space missions.

An event in Maquoketa will feature authentic moon rocks and other memorabilia from the historic Apollo missions presented by an Iowa native who was part of it.

This "potentially hazardous asteroid” heading our way on Thursday night is not supposed to hit Earth. Well, that’s good. Asteroid 441987 (2010 NY65), is more than two football fields across (218 yards) and is traveling at just under 30,000 miles per hour. Accordi...

Do you remember the night when our skies lit up thanks to a large meteor exploding over Cedar Rapids? It happened 11 years ago and there are numerous videos of what happened that night.

If you look up to the sky on a clear Iowa night, the naked eye can see around 2,000 stars. Now, there’s 2001 that you can see. First spotted in March using a small telescope, a Nova -- the sudden appearance of a bright, "new" star, that slowly fades --- occurred near the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. Name...

A giant chunk of a Chinese rocket that launched on April 29 is zipping around Earth in low orbit — and no one is for sure where it will land. The core of the 22.5-ton rocket will reenter Earth sometime soon and is nearly 100-feet long and over 16-feet wide...

On Thursday, February 18, for the first time in nearly a decade, a rover will be landing on Mars. The most recent rover to touch down on the Red Planet was ‘Curiosity’ in 2012. The Insight Mars lander reached the planet in 2018. (A ‘Lander’ stays stationary after landing on a surface, while a ‘Rover’ moves and explores) On Thursday afternoon, its ‘brother,’ Perseverance will be landing roughly 2,3

For the first time since the Middle Ages, Jupiter and Saturn will become so close to each other in the night sky that they'll appear as very bright "double planet” in the southwestern sky. It’s called ‘The Great Conjunction' -- when two objects appear to be very close together in the night sky...

***UPDATE*** The Saturday, November 14, 2020, SpaceX launch has been delayed to Sunday, due to inclement weather at the rocket booster’s landing location. SpaceX is now targeting 6:27 p.m. CT on Sunday, November 15. SpaceX is targeting 6:49 p...

Apophis, the asteroid which is expected to pass close to Earth in 2029, 2036 and REAL CLOSE in 2068, is gaining speed --- thanks to the sun, according to astronomers from the University of Hawaii. It’s known as the Yarkovsky Effect. The side of an asteroid facing the sun is warmed by sunlight and gives it a bit of a thrust...