A new study finds clues to where clouds gather on hot Jupiters, and what they’re likely made of.

A new NASA/university study finds tide gauges, the longest, best-quality historical records of ocean water levels, may have underestimated 20th century global sea level rise.

The next target for NASA’s New Horizons mission — which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015 — apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main destination.

A new NASA/university study finds tide gauges, the longest, best-quality historical records of ocean water levels, may have underestimated 20th century global sea level rise.

A new study finds clues to where clouds gather on hot Jupiters, and what they’re likely made of.

The next target for NASA’s New Horizons mission — which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015 — apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main destination.

The mission co-launched by ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency is landing on Mars tomorrow.

Today, ESA astronaut Tim Peake opened a UK facility that will expand Europe’s capability with satellites that rely wholly on electric propulsion.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Testing drinking water on the International Space Station

Our “twin” planet has some pretty Earth-like violent eruptions.

Something’s amis with NASA’s latest Jupiter mission.

2014MU69 may not look like much, but the tiny chunk of ice could unlock big mysteries about the solar system.

Space Science Image of the Week: A recent view of the Red Planet by ESA’s Mars Express workhorse, soon to be joined by ExoMars

Following separation of the Schiaparelli lander from its orbiter, ExoMars is now preparing to arrive at Mars. Watch live coverage from 13:00 GMT / 15:00 CEST on Wednesday

Follow alongside Schiaparelli’s six-minute descent to the surface of Mars with this realtime animation

Two ring moons may be hiding in plain sight around Uranus.

All instruments will be on for the next pass, but a planned engine burn will wait until December.

All instruments will be on for the next pass, but a planned engine burn is postponed.

All instruments will be on for the next pass, but a planned engine burn is postponed.

Our week through the lens: 10-14 October 2016

Watch live coverage of the ExoMars orbiter’s arrival at the Red Planet, and its Schiaparelli module’s descent to the surface. Coverage starts 16 October

Next week, ESA’s ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars’ gravity. The spacecraft and the mission controllers who will make it so are ready for arrival.

Earth observation image of the week: Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier and Holuhraun lava field, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

A cutting-edge development in spacecraft power systems is a powerful material with an unfamiliar name: skutterudite.

JPL is involved in a study that tested quantum teleportation underneath the city of Calgary in Canada.

A cutting-edge development in spacecraft power systems is a powerful material with an unfamiliar name: skutterudite.

JPL is involved in a study that tested quantum teleportation underneath the city of Calgary in Canada.

Follow mission status updates as the ExoMars orbiter reaches Mars and deploys a lander to its surface

Join us Friday, 14 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. Discover Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier in this week’s edition

Operations image of the week: A timelapse image makes our deep-space dish in Spain seem to spin

Breakthrough Listen are working with the National Observatory of China and three telescopes to investigate life beyond Earth.

The universe seems a little less lonely today.

Astronomers from the University of Nottingham conducted a new survey of the universe’s galaxy population and concluded that previous estimates lowballed the census by a factor of about 20. Using dat…

There are at least 10 times more galaxies than once thought.

Technology image of the week: the contract is signed for ESA’s newest, biggest small nanosatellite yet: the 6-unit GomX-4B CubeSat, seen here flying with its twin

This jumble of eroded blocks lies along the distinctive boundary between the Red Planet’s southern highlands and the northern lowlands, with remnants of ancient glaciers flowing around them.

With new data from Herschel, astronomers better understand how molecules form that are necessary for building other chemicals essential for life.

With new data from Herschel, astronomers better understand how molecules form that are necessary for building other chemicals essential for life.

Data from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory show ultraviolet light may be what creates crucial chemicals

As the ExoMars Schiaparelli module descends onto Mars on 19 October it will capture 15 images of the approaching surface. Scientists have simulated the view we can expect to see from the descent camera.

Managers are evaluating another way to collect and process data from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer on NASA’s Aura satellite after an age-related TES component failure.

Managers are evaluating another way to collect and process data from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer on NASA’s Aura satellite after an age-related TES component failure.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Learning about fluids in weightlessness on the Space Station

Our Alpha Centauri dreams may soon come true — and we may have the photos to prove it.

The new dwarf planet was discovered in a unique way.

Technique has potential to find planets that cannot be found by other methods

It’s (probably) not aliens, yet again.

Join us Tuesday, 11 October, at 14:00 CEST as ESA’s new Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Josef Aschbacher, joins the show to discuss the future of Earth observation in ESA

The spiral arms in this Hubble picture may remind you of a Milky-Way-like galaxy, but they are remnants of a dying star

Opportunity will drive down a Mars gully to investigate possible traces of water.

The weird worlds may be the remnants of larger “hot Jupiters”

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft studied comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for two weeks in September, complementing the view from the Rosetta spacecraft.

NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the mission.

Hurricanes like Matthew are a lot more than meets the “eye.” Images from several JPL satellites and instruments give scientists a wealth of information to analyze the storm.

Hurricanes like Matthew are a lot more than meets the “eye.” Images from several JPL satellites and instruments give scientists a wealth of information to analyze the storm.

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft studied comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for two weeks in September, complementing the view from the Rosetta spacecraft.

NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the mission.

ESA 2016 European Researchers’ Night in Italy, 30 September

This image, from the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite, shows the temperature at the top of Hurricane Matthew as it approached the US this morning

The first quarter Moon, shooting stars, and other beautiful things to look for in the sky this week.

Emily Lawdawalla, senior editor, processed the images and brought out the best definition.

The ExoMars 2016 mission will enter orbit around the Red Planet on 19 October. At the same time, its Schiaparelli lander will descend to the surface. Representatives of traditional and social media are invited to attend a two-day event at ESA’s ESOC control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 image of Shanghai, also featured in the 200th edition of the Earth from Space video programme

This week, the commands that will govern the Schiaparelli lander’s descent and touchdown on Mars were uploaded to ESA’s ExoMars spacecraft, enroute to the Red Planet.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.

A JPL-developed advanced atmospheric sounding system aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite is providing important insights into the inner workings of dangerous Hurricane Matthew.

A JPL-developed advanced atmospheric sounding system aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite is providing important insights into the inner workings of dangerous Hurricane Matthew.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.

A miniaturised biotech unit developed for the International Space Station is improving medical diagnoses on Earth with affordable automation of small-scale diagnostics.

Our week through the lens: 3-7 October 2016

Operations image of the week: Last command being sent to Rosetta

Join us Friday, 7 October, at 10:00 CEST for the 200th ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2 image of Shanghai

Technology image of the week: 3D printing demonstrated in the NL Space Tent at ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands

The Hubble Telescope has found hot blobs of gas being launched near a star.

Warm Neptunes and Hot Jupiters have a crayon-like assortment of hues.

With 74 successful launches in a row, Ariane 5 now matches the reliability of Ariane 4 – while an experiment is helping the development of Ariane 6.

A NASA-funded program provided valuable information for the response to the strong August earthquake in central Italy.

Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable — which would be a boon for future astronauts there — if the next one follows a pattern suggested by the past.

Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable — which would be a boon for future astronauts there — if the next one follows a pattern suggested by the past.

A NASA-funded program provided valuable information for the response to the strong August earthquake in central Italy.

We’re proud to have passed a big milestone on our YouTube channel – thanks for watching!

NASA will work with the ESA for their L3 gravitational wave mission.

Researchers have seen newborn red stars dimly shining from the cocoons of dust and gas out of which they formed.
Astronomers made this discovery using the European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)…

Voyagers 1 and 2 are still going strong after almost 40 years.

NASA tested new “eyes” for its next Mars rover mission on a rocket built by Masten Space Systems in Mojave, California, thanks in part to NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program.

NASA’s MISR instrument catches hot towers — enormous thunderheads — from Hurricane Matthew over Haiti the morning of Oct. 4, 2016.

NASA tested new “eyes” for its next Mars rover mission on a rocket built by Masten Space Systems in Mojave, California, thanks in part to NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program.

NASA’s MISR instrument catches hot towers — enormous thunderheads — from Hurricane Matthew over Haiti the morning of Oct. 4, 2016.

A look back at ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands on Sunday 2 October – in pictures

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Engineering model of the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands

Where does innovation come from? People. ESA engineers recount the Agency’s ground-breaking work in their own words

This famous astronomer carved herself a well-deserved place in history, so why doesn’t the Nobel committee see it that way?

They used pulsation to confirm a long-period planet around a Kepler candidate world.

Saturn’s moon Dione has joined the growing list of watery bodies in our solar system.

Data from NASA’s Cassini probe indicate that a liquid ocean some 20 miles deep exists far below the icy surface of the moon. This means that its interior…

After collecting drilled rock powder from a very scenic area, NASA’s Curiosity rover is driving toward uphill destinations as part of its two-year mission extension.

After collecting drilled rock powder from a very scenic area, NASA’s Curiosity rover is driving toward uphill destinations as part of its two-year mission extension.

Oceans might not be thought of as magnetic, but they make a tiny contribution to our planet’s protective magnetic shield. Remarkably, ESA’s Swarm satellites have not only measured this extremely faint field, but have also led to new discoveries about the electrical nature of inner Earth.

Space science image of the week: Rosetta’s impact point is named Sais after the original Egyptian home of the Rosetta Stone

The spiral arms may answer the question to how planets formed.

The new find adds to the population of “failed stars” and makes them even weirder than we thought.