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NASA and the American Physical Society (APS) have begun a partnership to share videos from the International Space Station with students, educators and science fans around the world.

ESA’s Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously identified, ancient shorelines on Mars.

NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland will host a special event on March 2 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s first orbital flight by an American.

New images from ESA’s Mars Express show the Syrtis Major region on Mars. Once thought to be a sea of water, the region is now known to be a volcanic province dating back billions of years.

NASA will host a media telecon at 2 p.m. CST today to discuss the status of the International Space Station and the progress toward an updated launch schedule, including international partner and commercial space vehicles.

PR 2 2012 – On 13 February, the European Space Agency will perform the first qualification flight of its brand new Vega launch vehicle.

Media representatives are invited to a briefing on new observations of the Milky Way and other galaxies by ESA’s Planck mission.

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has captured the best and most complete glimpse yet of what lies beyond the solar system.

ESA is a partner in the Toulouse Space Show being held 25–28 June. Experts from all over the world will gather for conferences on space applications, space and law, knowledge management for space missions, and antenna technology and applied electromagnetics.

Papers are invited for presentation at the conferences; the closing date for submission of abstracts is 15 February.

NASA has launched its first multi-player online game to test players’ knowledge of the space program.