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Experts say we need to improve our patchy knowledge of subsea permafrost.

Survey show that Americans want NASA to monitor climate change and asteroid threats, not land astronauts on the moon --

The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, a joint effort between NASA and the ESA to bring samples of Mars back to Earth, just moved into the next phase of development! The post Plans for a Mars Sample Return Mission Have Mo...

Astronauts in space found a way to ring in 2021 on New Year's Eve in their own way: a ball drop in zero gravity.

SpaceX has been awarded a $150.4 million contract to launch as many as 28 satellites for the Pentagon's space agency. SpaceNews

The governor of Puerto Rico says she backs rebuilding the Arecibo radio observatory, but a final decision on whether, and how, to reconstruct the giant telescope could take years. SpaceNews

The U.S. Senate voted 81-13 on Jan. 1 to override President Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. SpaceNews

Whatever craziness may be happening on Earth, the coming year promises to be a spectacular one across the solar system.

How can you have a ball "drop" when there is no up or down?...

Sending the first Artemis mission to the Moon in preparation for human missions, landing a new rover on Mars, and launching the James Webb Space Telescope into space, expanding our ability to see deep into the universe, ...