In a series of media opportunities Wednesday, Aug. 26, through Friday, Aug. 28, NASA experts will present an up-to-date global outlook on current conditions and future projections of sea level rise.

Relive the highlights of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope mission with a new digital calendar.

This new image of powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory reveals some of the most intense processes taking place at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

The study shows that pebble accretion can produce the observed structure of the solar system as long as the pebbles formed slowly enough that the growing gas giant planets have time to gravitationally interact with one another.

Curiosity investigated a geological contact zone and rocks that are unexpectedly high in silica and hydrogen content.

A new NASA report shows land in California’s San Joaquin Valley is sinking faster than ever as Californians continue pumping groundwater in response to the historic drought.

NASA scientists provide real science to debunk wild Internet rumors about an alleged September asteroid impact.

Technology image of the week: what look like Venetian blinds have been crucial to keep Rosetta’s temperature regulated

New modeling shows that the supernova shock wave that helped form the Sun also could be responsible for the spin of our solar system.

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov arrived in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, yesterday. This is their last destination before heading to the International Space Station in th…

Today’s HTV supply launch from Japan to the International Space Station also marks the arrival in orbit of one of ESA’s smallest missions yet – a CubeSat which will test miniaturised technologies for space, set to be followed by many more in coming years.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: aurora over Concordia research station in Antarctica

After taking a low-angle selfie at its latest drilling site, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has departed the area called “Marias Pass,” where it had been working since May.

Mars enthusiasts can participate in NASA’s journey to Mars by adding their names to a silicon microchip headed to Mars aboard NASA’s InSight Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year.

The mission confirms that the Moon’s exosphere is made up of mostly helium, argon, and neon.

New dwarf galaxy candidates could mean our sky is more crowded than we thought.

Space Science Image of the Week: Mirrors like these will help JWST look back 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming.

The newly discovered ring galaxy, dubbed Kathryn’s Wheel, is seven times closer than anything similar found before.

This study not only includes the well-known signatures of cities and streets, but also the effects of faint indirectly scattered light.

Our week through the lens: 10-14 August 2015

In a complicated mystery of double star systems, merging galaxies, and twin black holes, astronomers are explaining a series of unusual supernovae found beyond the typical confines of their galaxies.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn’s moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17 — the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft’s long mission.

The Copernicus Emergency Management Service is using radar images from Sentinel-1A to map the devastating flood in Myanmar

ESA’s Rosetta today witnessed Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko making its closest approach to the Sun. The exact moment of perihelion occurred at 02:03 GMT this morning when the comet came within 186 million km of the Sun. 

The new planet, discovered using the Gemini Planet Imager, is a million times fainter than its parent star and shows the strongest methane signature ever detected on an alien world.

After uncovering a major calibration error, scientists show that the newly corrected sunspot numbers now provide a homogenous record of solar activity dating back some 400 years.

Geckos have inspired a technology to make things stick together in space.

When a Dutch company working on soil pollution teamed up with ESA to build a better, bacteria-based air filter for space, they also created the foundation for a new way of keeping iron pipelines from corroding in the ground. 

Today, ESA signed contracts for the development of the Ariane 6 new‑generation launcher, its launch base and the Vega C evolution of the current small launcher.

By studying the lightest supermassive black hole found to date, scientists hope to better understand of such objects of different sizes grow.

The dramatic event on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was so powerful that it even pushed away the incoming solar wind.

Next time you tune in to public radio or the hottest Top 40 radio station, you’ll be using some of the same tools NASA uses to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

A dramatic outburst from Rosetta’s target comet is recorded by several instruments, including the Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer, which uses NASA-built electronics.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA’s Cebreros deep-space tracking station reflecting environmentally friendly light

With the number of known circumbinary exoplanets now at 10, astronomers can begin to compare different systems and look for trends.

In the approach to perihelion over the past few weeks, Rosetta has been witnessing growing activity from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, with one dramatic outburst event proving so powerful that it even pushed away the incoming solar wind.

Space science image of the week: Rosetta’s view upon arrival at the comet, on 6 August 2014, and exactly one year later

Like legendary superheroes, all space missions have origin stories. NASA’s Europa mission team recently wrote the final chapter of theirs, with their first team meeting.

Ten years after launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed the Red Planet’s diversity and activity, and its work is far from over.

An expected reduction in atmospheric ozone levels over the western U.S. was offset by natural atmospheric processes and pollutants crossing the Pacific Ocean from China.

Astronomers studying energy output in the nearby universe have confirmed that the energy produced today is only about half what it was 2 billion years ago.

Digital terrain mapping and mineralogical analysis of the features surrounding the deposit indicate that this one-time lakebed is no older than 3.6 billion years old.

The fact that scientists can see gravity perform the same in our solar system as it does in a distant star system helps confirm that the gravitational constant truly is universal.

NASA is launching an official Tumblr profile that will give Tumblr users a regular dose of space in a blog-like format through text, photos, videos and more.

Our week through the lens: 3-7 August 2015

The discovery explains the mystery of why many elliptical galaxies in the present-day universe are not ablaze with a higher rate of star birth.

Watch a replay of a Google+ Hangout with Rosetta and Philae experts held to celebrate the comet’s closest approach to the Sun

Low water levels in the Danube river have left ships to queue close to the town of Zimnicea in Romania.

The DSCOVR satellite’s series of test images reveals the fully illuminated “dark side” of the Moon never visible from our planet.

Agricultural fires in North Africa reduce the region’s rainfall during the dry season, according to a NASA study.

Striking 3-D detail highlights a towering mountain, the brightest spots and other features on dwarf planet Ceres in a new video from NASA’s Dawn mission.

A prominent mountain with bright streaks on its steep slopes is especially fascinating to scientists.

Celebrating Rosetta’s first year at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with a calendar of NavCam images

ESA’s Rosetta mission today celebrates one year at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, with its closest approach to the Sun now just one week away.

On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools, inviting the public to help with its journey to Mars.

How did the very first life forms on Earth get an electrical boost? New laboratory experiments offer clues.

Scientists are performing laboratory studies to try to decipher what causes the giant storm’s swirl of reddish hues.

Scientists are performing laboratory studies to try to decipher what causes the giant storm’s swirl of reddish hues.

A new study has traced some members of the near-Earth object population back to their likely source — the Euphrosyne family of dark asteroids in the outer asteroid belt.

Europe’s latest weather satellite images Earth today

As part of a galactic archaeology study, astronomers discovered that the spatial distribution of the young stars around M81, M82, and NGC 3077 follows very closely that of their distribution of neutral hydrogen.

Astronomers have discovered that some neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA’s New Norcia deep-space tracking station illuminated against the Australian night sky