NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn’s moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn’s moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons.

Here are a few ways that humanity may be able to leave the cradle of Earth.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) sent 1,035 photos of Mars back to Earth.

Saturn’s largest moon is beginning to look more and more like a bizarro Earth.

Technology image of the week: the blankets of multi-layer insulation that make satellites look like wrapped-up Christmas gifts

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: testing new version of astronaut instruction manual underwater

From our friends at Astronomers Without Borders.

New research points to Tabby’s Star dimming immensely over a four year time period.

Discover our planet’s changing climate through the eyes of satellites with Climate from Space, a new iPad App featuring interactive maps and video interviews with top scientists

Fiona Harrison, principal investigator of NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) mission, has been selected to receive the 2016 Massey Award, given by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).

Fiona Harrison, principal investigator of NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) mission, has been selected to receive the 2016 Massey Award, given by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).

Ending 16 days underwater to simulate a space mission

Rosetta celebrates two incredible years at the comet

Researchers find that volcanic activity ended approximately 3.5 billion years ago on Mercury.

The easiest answer is, it depends.

The universe lived through a prolonged “Dark Ages” until hydrogen reionized. Now, researchers are closer to figuring out when that happened.

You can expect to see up to 150 ‘shooting stars’ per hour when 2016’s best meteor shower peaks the night of August 11/12.

Martian veins at Yellowknife Bay at Gale Crater are evidence of ancient water on the Red Planet.

Rosetta was a rousing success. Here’s why that was quite an accomplishment.

Our week through the lens: 1-5 August 2016

Animation visualising Rosetta’s two-year adventure flying alongside a comet

Nearing the fourth anniversary of Curiosity landing on Mars, the rover works on collecting a 17th sample, while Earthlings can play a new social media game about Mars exploration.

A new study finds coastal waters and water supplies along a fifth of U.S. coasts are vulnerable to pollution from hidden underground water transfers between oceans and land.

Using public data collected by NASA’s Kepler mission, astronomers have catalogued the planet candidates that may be similar to our third rock from the sun.

A new study finds coastal waters and water supplies along a fifth of U.S. coasts are vulnerable to pollution from hidden underground water transfers between oceans and land.

Nearing the fourth anniversary of Curiosity landing on Mars, the rover works on collecting a 17th sample, while Earthlings can play a new social media game about Mars exploration.

Neal Stephenson is here to tell you about preparing for the biggest emergency.

A private spaceflight company, Moon Express, received approval to land on the Moon.

A new study suggests Ceres has a weak interior, and that water and other light materials separated from rock during a heating phase early in its history.

NASA has helped produce the first map of thawing at the bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet — key information in better predicting how it will react to a warming climate.

NASA has helped produce the first map of thawing at the bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet — key information in better predicting how it will react to a warming climate.

A new study suggests Ceres has a weak interior, and that water and other light materials separated from rock during a heating phase early in its history.

A new study reveals what lies deep inside the dwarf planet, Ceres.

Jupiter’s closest moon, Io, has an atmosphere that collapses when it is eclipsed by the gas giant.

Technology image of the week: candidate coatings for a new space antenna seen undergoing testing at ESA’s technical heart

A new image from a NASA spacecraft shows the area burned in the Sand Fire near Los Angeles.

A new image from a NASA spacecraft shows the area burned in the Sand Fire near Los Angeles.

It has been years in the making, but one of the trickiest pieces of space technology ever developed is finally ready to join its satellite for launch by the end of next year. With this milestone, we are another step closer to a better understanding of Earth’s winds.

There is a surprising lack of Cepheid Variable stars in the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

A new study suggests that present-day life appeared early.

Radio astronomy reveals millions of years of the supernova remnant 1987A’s life.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) really could kill us all from light-years away, but don’t fret too hard yet.

The spacecraft will soon get to test its instruments before its science phase begins.

NASA upgraded Curiosity with computer vision, letting it choose interesting rocks on its own.

Space science image of the week: A gigantic loop of fiery gas reaches out into space

A key feature of the James Webb Space Telescope is helping to shed light on what goes on underneath boats in stormy weather and around the structures of offshore oilrigs.

New findings using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water.

Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point.

Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point.

New findings using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water.

Our week through the lens: 25-29 July 2016

Liquid water was likely not the culprit for forming the gullies on Mars.

Astronomers have finally found evidence of “high-pitched” singing black holes.

A project dedicated to answering the question, are we alone in the universe?

Supermassive black holes in the universe are like a raucous choir singing in the language of X-rays. When black holes pull in surrounding matter, they let out powerful X-ray bursts.

Supermassive black holes in the universe are like a raucous choir singing in the language of X-rays. When black holes pull in surrounding matter, they let out powerful X-ray bursts.

Rosetta paints comets as ancient leftovers of the early Solar System, not young fragments born from collisions

Operations image of the week: A happy mission control team at ESA just after ExoMars completed its first deep-space engine firing en route to the Red Planet

Join us Friday, 29 July, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of northeastern Iran

Head out under a clear, dark sky after midnight these next couple of nights and you’ll see a dramatic display of “shooting stars.”

Astronomers find a superluminous supernova that seems to have exploded twice.

A new study suggests that exposure to deep space made its mark on those that went to the Moon.

Following a lengthy firing of its powerful engine this morning, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on track to arrive at the Red Planet in October.

Alone on the cosmic road, far from any known celestial object, a young, independent star is going through a tremendous growth spurt.

Alone on the cosmic road, far from any known celestial object, a young, independent star is going through a tremendous growth spurt.

The Sentinel-3A satellite recently caught this image of a dust storm blowing east across the Red Sea

A juvenile, independent star is going through a long-lived outburst.

For decades, the mystery has kept researchers scratching their heads. Now, we may find an answer.

A strange new type of binary star system has been found with terrible manners.