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Curving wriggles seen in sand dunes on Earth and formed by the recent ebb and flow of water have just been found on Mars. The post A Region On Mars With Recent Water Is About To Get Major Attention appeared first on Univ...

A new study by an international team of scientists uses data provided by the Dawn probe to show that conditions favorable to life could exist on Ceres The post Ceres Provides First Detection Of Life’s Building Blocks I...

After months of review, Juno's mission scientists have chosen not to attempt an engine burn that will reduce its orbital period. The post Juno Will Get No Closer To Jupiter Due To Engine Troubles appeared first on Univer...

NASA is inviting the public to help search for possible undiscovered worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar space. A new website, called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, lets everyone p...

A panel of former NASA astronauts and officials offered tentative support Feb. 16 for an agency study announced this week to examine putting a crew on the first flight of the Space Launch System. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX aborted its planned Dragon cargo launch to the International Space Station just seconds before liftoff Saturday due to a "slightly odd" technical issue with the Falcon 9 rocket engine.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is among nine federal programs targeted for elimination under a hit list the White House Office of Management and Budget circulated this week, according to The New York Times. SpaceNews.com

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The private spaceflight company SpaceX is scheduled to launch its tenth cargo mission to the International Space Station for NASA today (Feb. 18) at 10:01 a.m. EST (1501 GMT).

We live on an alien world. There's an entire hidden part of planet beneath the surface that we don't think about. Earth's rock fracture habitat goes down to 5 kilometers, maybe down to 10, and is thoroughly infested with...

We live on an alien world. There's an entire hidden part of planet beneath the surface that we don't think about. Earth's rock fracture habitat goes down to 5 kilometers, maybe down to 10, and is thoroughly infested with...

The first launch by SpaceX from an historic KSC launch pad will be delayed by at least a day after a technical problem scrubbed an attempted launch of a Dragon cargo spacecraft Feb. 18. SpaceNews.com

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An unmanned SpaceX spaceship carrying food and equipment to the astronauts living at the International Space Station is poised to blast off from a historic NASA launch pad on Saturday.

Any nation that hopes to have a space program needs to be able to keep an eye on its orbiting assets at all times. This means that Australia has become a key link in the global chain of ground-based tracking stations.

NASA plans to complete by the middle of March a contingency plan for ensuring access to the International Space Station should its two commercial crew partners suffer additional delays.

Planning your trip to see the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017? Here are 13 festivals, parties and public events across the United States..

(Michigan State University) Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star (about as big as Earth), in a laboratory rather than from a...

Data collected over decades proves that Earth has another continent: Zealandia. The post Earth Just Got A New Continent appeared first on Universe Today.

SpaceX said Feb. 17 that, other a technical issue with the upper stage of its Falcon 9 rocket, it is ready to perform its first launch from a historic launch pad here last used by the space shuttle more than five years a...

Brig. Gen. Mark Baird will likely be leaving his current post as vice commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center. SpaceNews.com