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Our week through the lens: 21-25 September 2015

After a decade-long journey through space, the Rosetta spacecraft has spent the past year less than 100km from the nucleus of comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, capturing some stunningly detailed images. But despite this w...

Could some of the hardiest bacteria on Earth hitchhike on a Journey to Mars and survive after landing in a new world? NASA researchers intend to find out.

Encryption isn't the reason we're missing alien signals, as Edward Snowden has suggested. Scientists searching for alien life are looking for other hallmarks of communication.

A new international space race is set to lift off between astronauts from Brazil, France, India and the United States. But instead of blasting off for the moon or Mars, the space explorers are embarking on a road rally f...

On Sunday (Sept. 27), skywatchers across the United States have a special treat: The full "supermoon" (a full moon when the moon is closest to Earth) will go into eclipse. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes into...

NASA has selected 27 organizations from across the United States to begin negotiations for cooperative agreement awards totaling $42 million to implement a new strategic approach to more effectively engage learners of al...

Despite the July failure of the radar on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite, scientists hope to salvage the $1 billion mission by enhancing data from its other sensor and perhaps by coordinating its mea...

If there's one thing we've learned from NASA's New Horizons flyby on July 14, it's that we have a really incomplete understanding of planetary evolution. And now, in a new image release by the Pluto mission, there's yet ...

More than 95 percent of NASA's workforce would be furloughed should the government shut down on Oct. 1, according to an updated agency plan, even as the chance of such a scenario decreases. SpaceNews.com

Just in time for this Sunday's (Sept. 27) lunar eclipse, artist Richard Clar will execute two moon-inspired projects that will send a part of Neil Armstrong back to the moon and create an introduction between the moon's ...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: Maggie Scholtz (@martianmagster), who is a Mechanical Engineer working at JPL. She worked on the Curiosity Rover, primarily on the development of the drill and sampling system. ...

What should observers expect to see happen during Sunday night's total lunar eclipse? Check out our guide to find out!

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The surprise announcement by House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) that he would resign from Congress may clear the way for a staunch supporter of the commercial space industry to ascend to the top post in the chamber...

Aerojet Rocketdyne will pay Orbital ATK $50 million to end a dispute about the role Aerojet's AJ-26 engine played in last year's Antares launch failure, the propulsion provider announced Sept. 24. SpaceNews.com

This is a guest post by Freya Pentz, who has spent much of this summer doing research with Galaxy Zoo. Hi Galaxy Zoo volunteers! I'm a summer student at the Zooniverse. I'm at university studying natural sciences about t...

Aerojet weighs higher bid for ULA -- Orbital ATK, Aerojet settle engine dispute -- China lofts 1st Long March 11 -- House, Senate leaders ready clean CR SpaceNews.com

The Earth Science Advisory Committee recommends the Fluorescence Explorer, or Flex, over CarbonSat to move toward full funding. SpaceNews.com

An international team led by researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich observed massive dead galaxies in the universe 4 billion years after the Big Bang with the Subaru Telescope's Multi-Object Infr...

This image of Phobos transiting Mars was taken by the Mars Colour Camera on 14 February 2015....

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