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NASA is looking at ways to stretch out the budget for its Human Landing System program should there be further delays in a final appropriations bill while still seeking full funding for the program in 2021. SpaceNews

The Aerospace Corp. is working to license commercially a laser communications subsystem that downlinked data at a rate of 200 megabits per second from three-unit cubesats. SpaceNews

Gravitational redshift, an effect predicted by Albert Einstein that is crucial for maintaining the Global Positioning System (GPS) on Earth, has been observed in a star system in our galaxy.

China launched a seventh group of Yaogan-30 reconnaissance satellites Oct. 26, marking the country's 31st launch of 2020. SpaceNews

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 7:49 p.m. EST Saturday, Nov. 14, for the launch of the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.

Aerospace Corp.'s policy center rolled out "Space Agenda 2021" to influence discussions in the next administration. SpaceNews

Like most spiral galaxies, the Milky Way has a roughly spherical collection of stars at its center called the bulge. How the bulge formed has been a long-standing mystery, with many studies suggesting that it built up ov...

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has logged a lot of flight miles since being lofted skyward on July 30--146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) to be exact. Turns out that is exactly the same distance ...

Europe signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday (Oct. 27) formalizing its collaboration on Gateway, NASA's planned outpost in lunar orbit.

Every 200,000 to 300,000 years Earth’s magnetic poles reverse. What was once the north pole becomes the south, and vice versa. It’s a time of invisible upheaval. The last reversal was unusual because it was so long a...

When the universe was only a tenth of its current age its galaxies experienced a growth spurt. It was this period that the scientists in the ALPINE project focused on when they used ESO's ALMA telescope to carry out the ...

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai talks orbital debris rules, megaconstellations, C-band auction, Ligado and more with SpaceNews. SpaceNews

Starburst Aerospace announced 14 startups and one consortium invited to share proposals for addressing important space-related challenges facing the United States and the United Kingdom at International Space Pitch Day, ...

The final 'Blue Moon' of the decade rounds out October 2020. The post Boo! A Halloween Blue Moon appeared first on Universe Today.

Is there such as thing as too much asteroid? Scientists and engineers for NASA's OSIRIS-REx decided to perform an "early stow" of the sample from Asteroid Bennu collected by the spacecraft on October 20, because the coll...

When giant stars die in impressive supernova blasts, about 99% of the energy released goes into producing a flood of neutrinos. These tiny, ghostly particles slip through tons of matter like it’s not even there. But a ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced an agreement Oct. 27 with Google Cloud to explore the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance the agency's use of satellite and en...

Captain Kathryn Janeway, the fearless leader of the USS Voyager in "Star Trek: Voyager," now has a permanent home in Indiana.

Astronomers are vetting a technique that could aid the hunt for Planet Nine, which some researchers think lurks undiscovered in the far outer system, way beyond Pluto's orbit.

Astronauts will mix drinks, sign books and regale guests with stories from their history-making NASA missions as part of a week of virtual events.

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Humankind's next giant step may be onto Mars. But before those missions can begin, scientists need to make scores of breakthrough advances, including learning how to grow crops on the red planet.