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Jacquelyn Shuman, FireSense Project Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, originally wanted to be a veterinarian. By the time she got to college, Shuman had switched interests to biology, which became a job teaching mi...

'Photosynthetic habitable zones' could exist beneath radiation-filtering ice on Mars, offering scientists another region in which to hunt for alien life.

ESA has signed a contract with OHB Italia SpA worth €63 million to begin preparatory work on the Agency's proposed Ramses mission to the infamous asteroid Apophis.

The NRO's new constellation of satellites, equipped with a range of sensors, is generating more information than ever before The post NRO pushes back on criticism of satellite intelligence delays appeared first on SpaceN...

Europe has officially launched the Moonlight program, which aims to provide services for the more than 400 moon missions planned by space agencies and private companies over the next two decades.

NASA announced two awards Thursday to establish scientific consortia - multi-institutional coalitions to conduct ground-based studies that help address the agency's goals of maintaining a sustained human presence in spac...

Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic outflows or jets, responsible for the existence of electromagnetic radiation of particularly high energies, are located in the nuclei of active galaxies dist...

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona. The findings are publis...

A passion for puzzles, problem-solving, and propulsion led Sarah Ryan - a native of Columbus, Ohio - to her current position as Raptor engine lead for NASA's HLS (Human Landing System) insight team at NASA's Marshall Spa...

The Artemis program involves impressive technological advancements in robotics, communications, spacecraft, and advanced habitats, all of which are clearly necessary for such an ambitious endeavour. But the mission also ...

In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese 229 – a red dwarf star located about 19 light-years from Earth. Since then, this br...

NASA's globetrotting C-130 Hercules team is carrying out a cargo transport mission to Bengaluru, India, in support of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The C-130 departed from NASA's Wallops Flight ...

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona. A corona is a shifting ...

In recent decades, we've learned huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes--both on Earth and in space--has been a key part of this process, and those that are due t...

Due to launch in the early 2030s, NASA's DAVINCI mission will investigate whether Venus--a sweltering world wrapped in an atmosphere of noxious gases--once had oceans and continents like Earth.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson will serve as co-pilot on tourism company Space Perspective's first crewed balloon flight, expected to occur in 2025.

Throughout the past week, Perseverance has continued marching up the Jezero crater rim. This steep ascent through the Martian regolith (soil) can prove to be slow driving for the rover, as the wheels can slip on the stee...

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space.

How NASA's DAVINCI mission to Venus uses old data to reveal new secrets.

While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet's surface.

A space shuttle lifts off high above the surrounding land in this Aug. 1, 1973, illustration. With 135 missions flown over 30 years, NASA's shuttle fleet achieved numerous firsts and opened space up to more people than e...

One-year-old French ground station provider Skynopy is exploring ways to reuse more than 20 teleport sites owned worldwide by Kinéis, a small satellite connectivity operator also based in France. The post Skynopy lays f...