A balloon carrying a test vehicle for NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project is scheduled to lift off no earlier than 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT/ 7:30 a.m. HST) Monday, June 8, from Kauai, Hawaii.

Revisit last week’s International Symposium on Climate Change in Rome, which reviewed the links between climate change and world development

Hyperion is the largest of Saturn’s irregular moons and may be the remnant of a violent collision that shattered a larger object into pieces.

This work provides a valuable key to understanding the early formation of the Sun and planets.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Vibrating mixtures in microgravity has revealed an unknown effect in liquids

NASA’s Alice instrument on Rosetta finds that electrons near its target comet cause rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules released from the comet’s nucleus.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned images from its final close approach to Saturn’s oddball moon Hyperion, upholding the moon’s reputation as one of the most bizarre objects in the solar system.

Rosetta’s continued close study of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has revealed an unexpected process at work, causing the rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules spewing from the comet’s surface.

ESA’s goal of removing a derelict satellite from orbit is picking up pace, as a mission design is assembled to be put before European ministers next year for approval.

Technology image of the week: this deceptively modest joystick is about to make space history

The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered that electrons are responsible for the rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecule’s erupting from the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

NASA’s LDSD project will beam back live imagery from a supersonic, edge-of-atmosphere test of braking technology for Mars.

Space Science Image of the Week: Strong winds whip dust and sand from the martian surface into a frenzy, shaping and smoothing the planet’s surface features

The spacecraft is taking its final set of images primarily for navigation purposes and will enter its second mapping orbit around the dwarf planet June 3.

Our week through the lens: 25-29 May 2015

The results lend significant weight to the case for jets being the result of merging black holes, but additional conditions must also be met.

Tests using X-ray and gamma-ray observations rule out two different models of the quantum nature of space-time.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its final close approach to Saturn’s large, irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on Sunday, May 31.

A new view of Ceres, taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on May 23, shows finer detail is becoming visible on the dwarf planet.

The 32 best images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station as voted by his Facebook followers

These three new images of huge filamentary structures of gas and dust from ESA’s Herschel space observatory reveal how matter is distributed across our Galaxy, the Milky Way.

The new images reveal more detail about Pluto’s complex and high-contrast surface.

This discovery was made while piecing together a time-lapse movie of a plasma jet blasted from a supermassive black hole inside a galaxy located 260 million light-years from Earth.

Technology image of the week: cabling for the testing of ESA’s Mercury mission, photographed by artist Edgar Martins

The International Space Station’s Permanent Multipurpose Module was detached and moved by the main robotic arm to another place on the orbiting laboratory yesterday.

An Ariane 5 lifted off last night from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites into their planned orbits.

The launch of flight VA223 occurred on 27 May at 21:16 GMT (23:16 CEST, 18:16 local time).

JPL has two newly announced science investigations that will help unravel the mystery of whether Jupiter’s moon Europa might have the right conditions for life.

Building a better parachute – one goal of a team working on NASA’s LDSD, a project to develop breakthrough technologies for landing future robotic and human Mars missions.

RoboSimian, the ape-like robot developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, will compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals at the Fairplex in Pomona, California, June 5 and 6.

Testing is underway on NASA’s next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.

A new image from the Very Large Telescope reveals that the star-forming region RCW 34 is home to multiple episodes of star birth.

Jupiter’s moon could be the best place in the solar system to look for present-day life beyond our home planet.

Follow the International Climate Symposium in Rome, Italy, via live webstream 27–29 May

Exhibits, displays and presenters from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, are participating in this year’s World Science Festival in New York, to be held from May 27 through 31.

The second flight test of NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) now will launch no earlier than 10:30 a.m. PDT (7:30 a.m. HST) Tuesday, June 2, from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii.

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NASA has selected nine science instruments for a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, to investigate whether the mysterious icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: The first images acquired by Mars Express based on imaging proposals from schools in 12 countries

Space Science Image of the Week: Fifteen years ago, XMM-Newton took a series of mesmerising self-portraits with our planet

The science team wants to examine an outcrop that contains the contact between a pale rock unit the mission analyzed lower on Mount Sharp and a darker bedded rock unit that the mission has not yet examined up close.

The science team wants to examine an outcrop that contains the contact between a pale rock unit the mission analyzed lower on Mount Sharp and a darker bedded rock unit that the mission has not yet examined up close.

Congratulations to the winners of the Sentinel-2 ‘Colour vision’ photo competition!

Researchers at JPL have joined an effort to harness the benefits of searching the “Deep Web,” which could prove useful for both law enforcement and science.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover climbed a hill Thursday to approach an alternative site for investigating a geological boundary, after a comparable site proved hard to reach.

Tests on Mars have confirmed success of a repair to the autonomous focusing capability of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover.

Our week through the lens: 18-22 May 2015

ESA at the Chelsea Flower Show

The 100-day countdown begins today for ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen’s visit to the International Space Station. Following launch on 1 September, he will test new technologies and deliver a fresh spacecraft for the long-stay crew already aboard the orbital complex.

First discovered several decades ago, Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more massive than our Sun.

The galaxy belongs to a new class of objects — extremely luminous infrared galaxies.

A recent acceleration in ice loss in a previously stable region of Antarctica has been detected by ESA’s ice mission.

A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is studying an elongated crater called “Spirit of St. Louis” and a rock spire called “Lindbergh Mound” within the crater.

Advanced LIGO will now undergo commissioning to ensure instrumentation is ready for its first search this autumn.

A study not only reveals a spiral galaxy devouring a nearby compact dwarf galaxy but also shows evidence of its past galactic snacks in unprecedented detail.

At first glance, the region covered by this latest Mars Express image release appears to be pockmarked with impact craters. But the largest structure among them may hold a rather explosive secret: it could be remains of an ancient supervol…

NASA’s Dawn mission captured a sequence of navigational images of dwarf planet Ceres from a distance of 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) on May 16, 2015.

The data provide evidence for one model of how type Ia supernovae occur and means both theories actually may be valid.

As the star at the heart of this nebula made its transition into retirement, it shed its outer layers into space, forming this colorful cloud.

Bearing balls produced by the European Space Tribology Laboratory, tasked with keeping missions moving in space

NASA’s new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed has begun science operations.

These galaxies are nearly as wide as our Milky Way Galaxy — about 60,000 light-years — yet harbor only 1 percent as many stars.

Forty years ago this week, a satellite ground station in Spain became the first to be assigned to what would become ESA. Since then, the network – Estrack – has expanded worldwide and today employs cutting-edge technology to link mission controllers with spacecraft orbiting Earth, voyaging deep in our Solar System or anywhere in between.

Scientists have not determined how the boulder seen in Rosetta images came to perch on the rim of a small depression.

The quartet of active galaxies reside in one of the most massive structures ever discovered in the distant universe and is surrounded by a giant nebula of cool dense gas.

On Saturday 16 May, after a long illness, ESA Director of Launchers Antonio Fabrizi passed away in Rome at the age of 67.

When extreme weather comes our way, realtime information from space can help us to decide if closing a bridge is the right thing to do.

A new study reveals that the amount of X-rays from magnetar SGR 1745-2900 is dropping more slowly than other previously observed magnetars, and its surface is hotter than expected.

The study of white dwarf migration in globular cluster 47 Tucanae challenges some of the ideas about how and when a star loses mass near the end of its life.

Ever wonder why stars seem to twinkle? This effect is caused by variations in the density of our atmosphere that cause blurring in light coming from space.

NASA has found that the last section of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is likely to disintegrate before the end of the decade.