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China's newest radio telescope, the largest in the world, will work with the privately-funded Breakthrough Initiatives organization to hunt for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.

Watch live coverage of the ExoMars orbiter's arrival at the Red Planet, and its Schiaparelli module's descent to the surface. Coverage starts 16 October

Watch how Schiaparelli will land on Mars Cross your fingers for good weather on the Red Planet on October 19. That’s the day the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli lander pops open its parachute, fires nine, liquid...

New research from a team of UK scientists shows how the early Universe had 10 times more galaxies than previously thought! The post The Universe’s Galaxy Population Just Grew Tenfold appeared first on Universe Today.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Guests: Tyler Finlay of the Sally Ride EarthKAM project Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg) Their stories this week: Two trillion galaxies? Obama reaff...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

A "picture perfect" in-flight abort test last week by Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle keeps the company on schedule to begin crewed test flights by the end of next year, the company's president said Oct. 13....

I have become citizen number 62 of Asgardia, a new space nation dedicated to expanding peaceful exploration of space for the benefit of humanity. It is led by Igor Ashurbeyli, chairman of UNESCO's Science of Space Commit...

Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTG) have powered rovers and spacecraft for decades. Now, the space agency is looking to increase the efficiency of the generators for future missions.

Intense warming 55 million years ago may not have been driven by volcanoes   --

The new estimate could help astronomers better understand how galaxies form and grow --

Next week, ESA's ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars' gravity. The spacecraft and the mission controllers who will make it so are ready for arrival.

On 10 October, ESA's deep-space radio dish in Cebreros, Spain, transmitted an 866 sec interstellar message towards the North Star as part of the international "A Simple Response" project.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

"From the point of view of the Earth system, a week vs. a century does not make that much difference," observes Gerald Dickens, a marine geologist at Rice University. "Both are almost geologically instantaneous. Whether ...

  To celebrate the centenary of women being allowed to be Fellows of the RAS we were platinum sponsors of Ada Lovelace Day 2016. Ada Lovelace Day was founded by Suw Charman-Anderson in 2009 and aims to raise the profile...

Thirteen years after its first, failed attempt to place a rover on Mars, Europe reaches a crucial stage Sunday in a fresh quest to scour the Red Planet for signs of life, this time with Russia.

A new paper just published in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal makes a stunning claim: There are ten times as many galaxies in the Universe as we previously thought. At least. The total number comes in at about two ...

In 2011, China's Foxconn, the company that builds Apple's iPhone and iPad hardware and many of the android smartphones, had announced a plan to replace 500,000 mainland Chinese workers with 1 million robots over the next...

Sergei Korolev is credited as being the founder of the Soviet Union's space program. He designed the rocket that put Sputnik in orbit.

Chinese scientists said yesterday that they have been examining three giant meteorites all from the same parent asteroid at the world's longest known meteorite-strewn field is at Altay in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Re...

After last week's successful "in-flight escape test" of its reusable New Shepard vehicle, Blue Origin is just a year or so away from launching people to suborbital space, company representatives said.