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We are extremely interested in the possibility of water on Mars, because where there’s water, there’s the potential for life. But a new study throws a bit of a wet blanket (pun intended) on that tantalizing possibili...

Viasat has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to perform an environmental review of SpaceX's Starlink broadband constellation, arguing that the satellite system poses environmental hazards in space and on E...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and elsewhere have conducted single-pulse observations of a pulsar known as PSR B1929+10. Res...

A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has discovered 591 high velocity stars based on data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectros...

2020 has been another year of progress for ESA. Watch this short highlight video....

Today the crew worked on the following: AstroPi, Food Acceptability, FOP sample exchange, ISS Experience, JAXA video take, Rodent Research, Standard Measures, SoundSee stow, Veggie Monitor. Tomorrow the crew has the day ...

A team of astronomers set out to disprove modified gravity, and ended up confirming it instead. The post New Data Supports the Modified Gravity Explanation for Dark Matter, Much to the Surprise of the Researchers appeare...

Students from across the country will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

NASA's quest to put boots back on the moon will likely get less urgent after President-elect Joe Biden takes office next month.

While 2020 was a difficult year around the world with the challenges that have come with the coronavirus pandemic, space continued to reach new heights.

Earth may well be a latecomer to the fraternity of technological civilizations --

There's something a little off about our theory of the universe. Almost everything fits, but there's a fly in the cosmic ointment, a particle of sand in the infinite sandwich. Some scientists think the culprit might be g...

Other worlds aren't the only difficult terrain personnel will have to traverse in humanity's exploration of the solar system. There are some parts of our own planet that are inhospitable and hard to travel over. Inner Mo...