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A draft version of the report notes that engineers have found cracks in turbine blades in the turbopumps of the engines. SpaceNews.com

NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 8, to discuss research investigations launching aboard the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station. Among the investig...

As Cassini maneuvers for its eventual suicide dive between the planet and its rings, new shots capture moonlets, density waves and other mysteries at the highest resolution yet --

Commercial remote sensing company Planet announced Feb. 3 it was acquiring rival Terra Bella from Google for an undisclosed sum, bringing together what the companies believe are complementary capabilities to image the Ea...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Meredith Rawls Meredith is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. She writes software to prepare for the coming onslaught of da...

The Calabash Nebula, pictured here--which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2--is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun. This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the sta...

Rovers have limited time on Mars, so to optimize the science returns, geologists on Earth are devising new strategies for NASA's rover drivers to find the ripest areas of study.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The first total solar eclipse in the continental United States in nearly 40 years takes place on Aug. 21, 2017. Beyond providing a brilliant sight in the daytime sky, total solar eclipses provide a rare chance for scient...

NASA has opened media accreditation for the next Orbital ATK launch of a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Cygnus spacecraft is targeted to launch March 19, during a 30-minute window tha...

Some 470 million years ago, during the middle part of the geological period known as the Ordovician, an asteroid collision took place somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. The collision caused an explosion that sent a casc...

2017 is shaping up to be one of the more exciting years in recent history, with the potential for several "industry firsts," along with profound shifts in public policy. SpaceNews.com

Iran's Musa Bay on the northern end of the Persian Gulf is pictured in this image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite on 13 January 2017....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In the most epic hail mary throw of all-time, a football was thrown in the ISS and it flew hundreds of thousands of miles (when you include the distance traveled by the Space Station at 17,500 mph).

Physicists harness starlight to support the case for entanglement. --

Our week through the lens: 30 January - 3 February 2017

(Phys.org)--A team of space researchers with members from Yale University, MIT and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has found a bump in X-ray readings from the Chandra-X-ray observatory that appears to be ...

A musical video collaboration between Yuksek and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet

NASA has upgraded its website that provides daily views of the Earth from one million miles away. NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera imagery website was recently updated allowing the public to choose...

A new report details problems that could push the Mars 2020 rover over-budget and behind schedule --

A new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express shows off the Red Planet's north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark spiralling troughs.