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Was Venus once covered in a liquid water ocean? A new study suggests it was not, which could diminish hope that eons ago, warm and wet conditions allowed life to arise on the planet.

Gen. Murray: "We have to have multiple ways of getting PNT in the future battlefield because of the threat of jamming." SpaceNews.com

An organization of current and former space travelers is offering its expertise to NASA as the agency works towards a "quite aggressive" goal of landing people on the moon in five years. SpaceNews.com

The InSight Mars lander's burrowing heat probe has moved a few centimeters recently, suggesting that a boulder isn't blocking its path -- and that the mission team may be able to get it fully unstuck at some point.

Lt. Gen. Dickinson: Army has 'a very important role' in space operations. SpaceNews.com

Students around the world are wrapping up design ideas for experimental rockets to compete in the fourth annual Spaceport America Cup, the largest intercollegiate rocket engineering contest on Earth.

NASA and the DLR are making some progress with the Mole. The Mole has been stuck for months now, and NASA/DLR have been working to get it unstuck. After removing the mole’s housing to get a better look at it with InSig...

NASA will postpone the remainder of an ongoing series of spacewalks at the International Space Station to upgrade batteries for its power system after a related component malfunctioned and needs to be replaced. SpaceNews...

NASA's first all-electric aircraft - the X-57 Maxwell - was recently delivered to the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) for testing. The post NASA Has a New, All-Electric Airplane appeared first on Universe To...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion. As the probe descended from Mach 50 to Mach 1 and generated enough heat to cause plasma reactions on its surface...

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 4:30 p.m. EDT today to discuss this week's first all-female spacewalk at the International Space Station. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency's website.

Astronomers have completed the largest survey to date of the faint outskirts of nearby galaxies, successfully testing a low-cost system for exploring these local stellar systems. R. Michael Rich of the University of Cali...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers used the Atacama Large Millim...

Right now, it's a solar system known only by the designation HD 17156. Before 2019 ends, it will bear an entirely different second moniker -- perhaps one suggested by you.

At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study this...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands have produced crops in Mars and Moon soil simulant developed by NASA. The research supports the idea that it would not only be possible to grow food on M...

The FCC, on SpaceX's behalf, submitted 20 filings to the ITU for 1,500 satellites apiece in various low Earth orbits, an ITU official confirmed Oct. 15 to SpaceNews. SpaceNews.com

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Latest citizen science kit gets green light

Positive steps towards solving the problems discovered with the ExoMars mission parachutes have been taken in the last month to keep on track for the July-August 2020 launch window.

When astronomers use the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the deep sky, asteroids from our solar system can leave their marks on the captured pictures of far-away galaxies or nebulae. But rather than be annoyed a...

A new Goose the Flerken figure is coming for Captain Marvel fans. It lands in 2020.