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NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search for life on other planets. Scientists from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have announced first results from new intelligent systems,...

This week we are airing Fraser’s pre-recorded interview with Elizabeth Howell and Nicholas Booth, co-authors of the new book The Search for Life on Mars: The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time. Their book ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Polarized light is a familiar phenomenon because the scattering or reflection of light results in one of its two components being preferentially absorbed. The majority of sunlight on Earth, for example, is preferentially...

NASA has announced that starting next year, SpaceX will be able to reuse its Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 boosters to send astronauts to the ISS. The post NASA Changes its Mind. It Will be Using Previously Flown C...

Over the next decade, several very powerful telescopes will come online. Observing time on these ‘scopes will be in high demand, and their range of targets will span a whole host of topics in astronomy, astrophysics, a...

Two veteran astronauts will step out of the International Space Station today (June 26) on the first four complicated spacewalks to swap out outdated batteries on the orbiting lab.

In our neighborhood, three quarters of planets have at least one moon, but no such object has been confidently discovered so far in distant star systems -- such worlds are just too small and far away.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet discovered by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission between the European ...

The $150 million addition is for investments focused on the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 competition. SpaceNews.com

The European Space Agency formally started the search for its next leader June 25, with the current head of the agency recommending it select a "dynamic young successor." SpaceNews.com

A spacewalking astronaut added to the millions of pieces of junk orbiting the Earth on Friday, losing a small mirror as soon as he stepped out of the International Space Station for battery work.

The Hubble Space Telescope spotted a bat signal out in the cosmos, 1,300 light-years from home. And the bat? It's flapping its wings.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 57 new Starlink satellites and two BlackSky Global satellites into orbit today (June. 26). Here's how to watch.

Ball Aerospace won a $96.9 million contract June 25 to build, integrate and operate a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Follow On satellite destined for Lagrange Point 1. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX called off the launch of its latest Starlink satellite mission Friday (June 26) to allow more time for preflight checks.

Virgin Galactic successfully completed a second test flight of its SpaceShipTwo space plane from the company's New Mexico spaceport on Thursday (June 25).

Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC won a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contract for a design study of a constellation of cubesats to provide weather data. SpaceNews.com

The Pentagon should release a public report on UFOs, argues the U.S. Senate intelligence committee. In addition to requiring a public report, the committee plans to impose new rules on how the Department of Defense (DOD)...

The Expedition 63 crew is in final preparations today ahead of Friday's spacewalk to replace batteries on the outside of the International Space Station....

Satellite network operators will soon be saddled with the same regulatory responsibilities as terrestrial network players. SpaceNews.com

On 23 June 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) officially launched the French European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO).