Anyone with a computer can take the driver’s seat using this new NASA model of sea level rise and ice sheet melt.

ESA Director General Jan Wörner signed a Memorandum of Intent with Rolls-Royce today, as the two entities agree to investigate how space technology can be used to develop autonomous and remote-controlled ships.

Operations image of the week: ESA’s deep-space ground station at New Norcia, Western Australia, is now being powered in part by sunlight

The massive exoplanet WASP-18b seems to have a smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide and devoid of water.

Follow the Sentinel-5P First Light event live on 1 December, when the first images from this air-monitoring mission will be revealed. Streaming starts at 09:30 GMT (10:30 CET)

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have teamed up to increase the accuracy of weather forecasts down on Earth.

What four small pieces of rock can teach us about the history of the solar system.

Technology image of the week: Preparing for gravitational measurements from space

The Ariane 6 launch zone is taking shape at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, preparing for liftoff in July 2020

The Hampton Roads metropolitan area is sinking at highly uneven rates, with a few spots subsiding 7 to 10 times faster than the area average.

The 2020 mission’s hardware is coming together at JPL.

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Paolo Nespoli talks over amateur radio from the Space Station

This first glimpse raises questions about the dark matter models we use.

ESA is considering extending its activities to a new region of the sky via a novel type of aerial vehicle, a ‘missing link’ between drones and satellites.

ESA’s ground station in Western Australia routinely communicates with spacecraft at far-away places like Mars. Now, it’s using sunlight to generate electricity, significantly reducing energy costs.

Close calls nearly doomed these space missions.

Space Science Image of the Week: Delve into the depths of a star-forming cloud observed by the Herschel space observatory

Our week through the lens: 20-24 November 2017

Earth observation image of the week: Sentinel-1 ‘radar vision’ over part of Antarctica’s third-largest island

In the 249th edition, the Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of Thurston Island in Antarctica

Technology image of the week: Foam that absorbs radio signals and sound

GomX-4B, ESA’s latest and largest technology-testing CubeSat, will be launched from China early next year, together with the near-identical GomX-4A. The pair will test intersatellite communication links and propulsion while orbiting up to …

ESA’s first Earth observation satellite was launched on 23 November 1977. When the first Meteosat satellite took its place in the sky, it completed coverage of the whole globe from geostationary orbit and laid the foundations for European …

Take us with you, `Oumuamua.

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55 Cancri e is too hot for life, but it does have a nice thick blanket to keep it warm.

Artificial intelligence could soon match the skills of professional drone pilots.

A bevy of color images was assembled to produce the mission’s final end-to-end look at the planet and its rings.

Human spaceflight image of the week: Rover and drone form an alliance for space exploration

Europe’s next four Galileo navigation satellites and the Ariane 5 rocket due to lift them into orbit are being readied for their 12 December launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

A mini-rover, tools once used on the Moon and lasers for 3D mapping are in the backpack of the explorers of tomorrow. The terrain will be hazardous and it will be dark in volcanic caves, but this equipment could one day help to scout other…

Astronomers suggest microscopic organisms, such as tardigrades, can be transported between planets by fast-moving streams of space dust.

A new NASA tool that links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice may help coastal planners prepare for future rising seas.

New data reveal first detected interstellar object to be a rocky, and up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated-perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide.