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SETI Panel Revises Recommendations for Dealing With 'Disclosure Day'

Reported by Universe Today

An international committee of experts says it has updated its rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence. The revisions to the decades-old Declaration of Principles, created and maintained by the International Acade...
  • By: Alan Boyle (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cosmiclog)
  • On: Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:43 +0000

NASA Bids Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission in Public Teleconference

Reported by Universe Today

The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars and a decade beyond its primary, one-year mission....
  • By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
  • On: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:39 +0000

NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time

Reported by NASA

NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supe...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:44 +0000

Astronomers Make "Live" Observation of a Nearby Protoplanetary Disk's Rotation

Reported by Universe Today

Ever since the first protoplanetary disk was discovered in 1984 around the star Beta Pictoris, these objects have presented astronomers with laboratories to study the births and evolution of worlds around distant stars. A team at France's National Center f...
  • By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
  • On: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:22 +0000

NASA Announces Winners of 2026 University Innovation Competition 

Reported by NASA

NASA announced the Massachusetts Institute of Technology project, Exploration-Class Lunar Integrated Power SystEm, as the first place winner for the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, wh...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:17 +0000

NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Research Continues on Earth

Reported by NASA

Since NASA’s Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after their record-setting mission around the Moon, science teams have been busy collecting more data and combing through observations collected on the test flight...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:16 +0000