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Members of the Senate space subcommittee used a June 6 hearing to once again express opposition to the administration's proposal to end NASA funding of the International Space Station in 2025. SpaceNews.com

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission granted a spectrum license June 7 to Audacy, the Silicon Valley startup planning to establish a space-based commercial communications relay network. SpaceNews.com

NASA will need to partner with industry wherever possible to maximize its ability to carry out its exploration and science goals while maintaining internal capabilities to build launch vehicles and spacecraft, the agency...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, June 11, to discuss a number of science investigations launching to the International Space Station on the next SpaceX commercial resupply mission.

"Are there signs of life on Mars?" said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, at NASA Headquarters. "We don't know, but these results tell us we are on the right track." NASA's Curiosity rove...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for curren...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for curren...

In 2015, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner established Breakthrough Initiatives, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). In April of the following year, he and ...

After decades of searching, scientists are at last closing in on the sources of carbon-rich material in the Red Planet’s air and soil --

NASA's Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for curren...

NASA has approved an update to Juno's science operations until July 2021....

In 1587, more than 100 men, women, and children settled on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina. War with Spain prevented speedy resupply of the colony--the first English settlement in the New World, backed by El...

Susan Breon wears two hats: scientist and musician.

It's official: The next Lego movie will be out of this world.

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo present today the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets with the same size of the Earth. The information ab...

See photos of and by the astronauts of the Expedition 56 mission to the International Space Station, which began in June 2018.

NASA astronauts will embark on a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Thursday, June 14, during which they will install new high-definition cameras to capture spacecraft docking with the International Space Station, including n...

"The relationship between rising oxygen levels and mantle cooling has implications for any terrestrial planet," says Grant Cox Grant Cox at the University of Adelaide. "All planets will cool, and those with efficient pla...

Scientists are proposing seasonality of atmospheric ozone as a sensitive indicator of life in low-oxygen planets: "We are particularly excited about the prospect of characterizing oxygen fluctuations at the low levels we...

Technology image of the week: an entire Galileo satellite was taken apart then put back together on this test bench for laboratory testing

Astronomers have discovered several bizarre objects at the Galactic Center that are concealing their true identity behind a smoke screen of dust; they look like gas clouds, but behave like stars. "These compact dusty ste...

Fallen trees at Tunguska, Imperial Russia, seen in 1929, 15 km from epicentre of aerial blast site, caused by explosion of a meteor in 1908 (Photo N. A. Setrukov, 1928).