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Distinctive linear plumes of these particles extend as far as 2.5 miles downstream from shallow shipwreck sites.

The first phase of the European-led ExoMars life-hunting program blasted off today (March 14), as two robotic spacecraft soared skyward atop a Russian Proton-M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:31 a.m. E...

Relive key moments as ExoMars 2016 separates from the Breeze upper stage and sends its first signals back to Earth

A Russian Proton heavy-lift rocket on March 14 successfully placed the Euro-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission into orbit, a launch intended as the first half of a program whose second half, scheduled for 2018, remains in doub...

NASA's Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected four proposals to develop solar array technologies that will aid spacecraft in exploring destinations well beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Today: Space Headaches: Peake completed his Weekly Space Headaches questionnaire. Headaches can be a common complaint during spaceflight. The Space Headaches experiment will provide information that may help in the devel...

Dark Matter is rightly called one of the greatest mysteries in the Universe. In fact, so mysterious is it, that we here in the opulent sky-scraper offices of Universe Today often joke that it should be called "Dark Myste...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named former astronaut Janet Kavandi director of the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Kavandi has been serving as Glenn's deputy director since February 2015. She succeed...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The joint European/Russian ExoMars spacecraft successfully launched early this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Proton-M rocket at 5:31:42 a.m. EDT (0931:42 GMT), Monday, March 14, with the goal ...

For the first time, Jeff Bezos, billionaire and chief executive of Amazon, opened the door to his secretive rocket factory Blue Origin -- here's an exclusive look inside.

Europe and Russia have successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft in a joint mission to probe for signs of life on Mars and bring a manned mission a step closer to flying to the Red Planet. The spacecraft, scheduled to...

NASA wants the rocket engine to help launch astronauts on the agency's first crewed mission beyond Earth’s orbit since the last of the Apollo moon missions --

On March 10, 2006,* the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at the fourth planet from the Sun and took up orbit there. Forty-five thousand orbits and 10 years later, it has provided us humans back on Earth with a revolut...

The two robotic spacecraft are the first part of the two-phase European–Russian ExoMars program to hunt for signs of life on the Red Planet --

"Call it the sound of dark matter," says Asimina Arvanitaki, a theoretical particle physicist at Perimeter Institute. Despite making up the vast majority of stuff in our universe, dark matter remains invisible. But perha...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The Trace Gas Orbiter, which will search for traces of biological life on the red planet, was launched into space this morning. The probe's array of instruments includes a high-tech camera built at the University of Bern...

"It (could be) life Jim, but (perhaps) not as we know it." This is not just a sci-fi catchphrase, but also something some planetary scientists have uttered in response to the discovery of methane in Mars' atmosphere. Tha...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: