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Retired NASA astronaut and Iowa native is set to help make history again.

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…

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...

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 a very bright "double planet” in the southwestern sky. It’s called ‘The Great Conjunction' -- when tw…

This is heartbreaking.

You can view the amazing spectacle online.

The diameter of this space rock is an estimated 1.2 miles!

Mitch Harger is working with NASA to assist in the next International Space Station space walk.

At his heaviest, Walter weighed 440 pounds. So to help lose the weight he began climbing the stairs at the courthouse during his lunch break.