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'In a sense, we've run that experiment,' says Seth Shostak, chief alien hunter at the Search for Extraterrestrial IntelligenceAfter a day off recovering from jet lag, which I somehow end up spending whizzing up and down the hills of San Francisco...

Neil Denny was beginning his road trip of the US when he interviewed Seth Shostak of Seti. To hear the full interview, visit the Little Atoms Road Trip website.

Letting astronauts control robots on a planet's surface from orbit will give them far more control and make missions more productive

Letting astronauts control robots on a planet's surface from orbit will give them far more control and make missions more productive

WASHINGTON — They’re very diplomatic with their checkbooks. State Department employees have cabled $149,000 to their boss’ re-election campaign — making workers there one of his campaign’s biggest groups of contributors. The diplomats,...

Space Exploration Technologies, reacting quickly to an aborted mission to the international space station, intends to launch again after swapping out a faulty part.

Over the past several months, those who have glanced to the western horizon at sunset may have noticed two objects brilliantly gleaming in the twilight. What may have seemed like aircraft were actually two of the eight planets circling the sun —...

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 20, 2012 NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will present results to date from the satellite-servicing Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) during the Second International Workshop, On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, hosted by NASA's...

Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 20, 2012 Landing on Mars is never easy, as a record of failed missions has demonstrated. The gravity is fairly strong, but the atmosphere is thin. This pulls spacecraft in rapidly as they approach, but offers little...

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 21, 2012 On May 20-21, 2012 an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor along Earth's northern Hemisphere - beginning in eastern Asia, crossing the North Pacific Ocean, and ending in the...