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The International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) has released a supplement to its Global Exploration Roadmap (GER) focused on updates to the Lunar Surface Exploration scenario. In the update, ISECG confirmed that its membership has swelled to 24 space agencies from 15. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. …

A day after the news broke of the discovery of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, Breakthrough Initiatives announced it was going to fund a private study to search for primitive life in the clouds of Venus and explore the possibility of sending a mission. The study will be led by a Canadian, Dr. Sara Seager of MIT.

While we look outward from the Earth into space, exploring and working in space, we do so not only to learn more about our universe, but also on how we can improve things here on Earth.

Highlighting Canada’s space engineering, and encouraging the Canadian space sector to helm ambitious projects amid the pandemic, are some of the priorities of a new youth representative for Canada’s chief science advisor.

The first weather satellite launched on April 1, 1960, 60 years ago. In this feature on Science Weekend from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the five things that changed weather forecasting forever are discussed by some of the pioneers in the field.

On August 6 the Canadian Space Agency posted two new announcements of opportunities to its website for the Earth system science and solar-terrestrial science communities. Both opportunities are open until October 6, 2020.

Mars was likely a cold and glaciated planet early in its history, a new Canadian-led study suggests, which has implications for the ongoing search for life on the Red Planet.

The Canadian Space Agency will hosts seven webinars starting tomorrow in support of its Flights and Fieldwork for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST) program.

NASA yesterday posted a status update of the Mars Perseverance Rover noting that the spacecraft had exited safe mode after briefly going into safe mode shortly after the spacecraft “was placed on an interplanetary trajectory.”

On a beautiful morning on the space coast of Florida, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket flawlessly launched NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover on a seven month trip to the red planet.