A Selection of Top Stories from Space.com

• Deep Impact has New Mission for New Year
• NASA Targets Jan. 10 for Next Shuttle Launch
• Space Station Crew Ready for Extra Spacewalk
• North Pole Meteor Shower
• See Tonight's 'Great' Meteor Shower
• Saturn's Rings Older Than First Thought?
• NASA Taps Boeing to Build Avionics for New Rocket
• NASA's Lunar Orbiter Mission Could Slip
• Huge Newfound Part of Milky Way Rotates Backward
• Saturn Ringed by Electric Doughnut
• Space Mail System Works (Except for that Lost Package)
• China's President Hails Military, Scientists for Moon Probe's Success
• Astronaut's Son Ready To Fulfill Lifelong Dream
• NASA to Test Space Shuttle Fuel Tank
• NASA Aims to Look Inside the Moon
• Strange Shapes Seen on Mars
• Bugs in Space: Can They Survive?
• Life's Building Blocks Found in Mars Rock
• Northern Lights Race Across the Sky
• First Sunset Outside Our Solar System Glimpsed
• Scientists Worry About Power on Mars Rover
• Countdown Coverage: Atlas 5 Rocket Hauls Classified U.S. Satellite to Orbit
• Our Solar System is Squashed
• Missing Matter Caught in Tangled Cosmic Webs
• Space Systems/Loral Proposes Bus for NASA's Cargo Needs