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If you missed the meteor shower this weekend, don't worry. The internet has some stellar videos to fill you in.

Space junk is becoming a real problem, as a large piece of debris will slam into the moon Friday morning.

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.

To boldly go where no piece of jewelry has gone before.

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...

SpaceX is targeting 6:49 p.m. CT on Saturday, November 14, for the launch of Crew-1 (the first crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft) aboard a rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If all goes according to plan, the Crew Dragon will dock with the International Space Station at around 3:04 CT Sunday morning...