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

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

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

Technology image of the week: a docking ring for joining ESA’s ATV space truck to the International Space Station goes on show at ESA’s technical heart

Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission have found that, surprisingly, Ceres lacks any truly large impact basins.

Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission have found that, surprisingly, Ceres lacks any truly large impact basins.

Trying to measure sea levels around rugged coastlines is not always an easy task. ESA’s CryoSat satellite is making a difference with its radar altimeter.

ESA plans on shutting down communication attempts with the ill-fated comet lander.

The dwarf planet Ceres has a lack of large craters where there should be many.

Help preserve the 13-inch telescope that Clyde Tombaugh used to find the dwarf planet Pluto.

X-rays from iron tell the tale of swirling space-time.

Tales from the Materials and Electrical Component Lab: this video covers the selection of materials for ESA’s mission around the innermost planet

Space science image of the week: Hadley Rille could be an ancient channel that once carried lava across the Moon

When researchers found a compound that shouldn’t have been there, it revealed a missing piece of Mars’ history.

A Florida Institute of Technology student helps uncover the strange behavior of the Kepler-80 system.

Our week through the lens: 18-22 July 2016

The spacecraft tumbled out of control shortly after first light earlier this year.

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment has found no traces of dark matter.

A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by historical records due to quirks in how global temperatures were recorded.

A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by historical records due to quirks in how global temperatures were recorded.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is using onboard software to select rocks to zap with its laser spectrometer and to autonomously point the instrument at the targets.

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is using onboard software to select rocks to zap with its laser spectrometer and to autonomously point the instrument at the targets.

Join us on 26 July for a Google hangout with updates and Q&A with ESA experts and scientists focusing on the crucial milestones during the spacecraft’s seven-month cruise to the Red Planet

This year, NASA’s underwater training mission for astronauts promises to be longer and better than ever. Starting on 21 July, space agencies will test technologies and research international crew behaviour for long-duration missions using a permanent underwater base off the coast of Florida.

Join us Friday, 22 July, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of Tonga’s Tongatapu island

Operations image of the week: ESA is using quasars – some of the Universe’s most enigmatic objects – to perform ultraprecise navigation for ExoMars

The Smithsonian releases an interactive 3-D model of the home of the Apollo 11 astronauts.

The new haul includes four Earth-like planets in one solar system

The TRAPPIST-1 system may have three habitable planets. Now we know a little more about two of them.

Technology image of the week: shaker testing of a radiator panel to ensure hard-working telecommunication satellites keep their cool in space

Gilbert Levin directed one of the microbiology experiments. 40 years later, here’s what he has to say.

A larger-than-believed object carved a mark on the Imbrium Sculpture region.

The SpaceX Dragon CRS-9 cargo vessel seen chasing the International Space Station from Leiden, The Netherlands, just a few hours before this morning’s berthing.

A new understanding of our galaxy’s structure began in an unlikely way: on Twitter.

A new understanding of our galaxy’s structure began in an unlikely way: on Twitter.

ESA’s new Advanced Manufacturing Lab will probe the application of 3D printing and other advanced manufacturing techniques for future space missions

Radiation is an invisible hazard of spaceflight, but a new monitoring system for ESA astronauts gives a realtime snapshot of their exposure. The results will guide researchers preparing for deep-space missions to come.

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope is still under construction, but ready to return valuable scientific information.

Orbital mechanics, ruining your dreams for 13.5 billion years.

A collaborative effort led to the discovery of an X-shaped bulge.

Giant space telescopes, continued exploration of Mars, and an eye towards Jupiter’s moons mark an exciting roadmap for the agency’s future.

NASA has selected five U.S. aerospace companies to conduct concept studies for a potential future Mars orbiter mission.

An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.

NASA climate experts will discuss recent trends in global temperatures and Arctic sea ice, plus research to better understand their impacts, on a July 19 media telecon.

ESA’s Venus Express reveals details on Venus’ surface by studying patterns of clouds in its thick atmosphere

Space Science Image of the Week: Ancient areas of Mars are peppered with impact craters similar to this unnamed pit in Noachis Terra, viewed by ESA’s Mars Express

Wind movements could provide subtle clues to what’s going on below.

While most of us may be looking forward to spending some time in the sunshine this summer, the Sentinel-2B satellite is being subjected to the extreme cold of space to make sure it is fit for life in orbit.

After an extensive review process, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in summer of 2020 and arrive on Mars in February 2021.

With NASA’s Juno poised to study Jupiter’s origins, NASA continues to explore our solar system to help answer questions about our origins and future and whether we are alone.

Crashing planets means bad news for evolving life.

Our week through the lens: 11-15 July 2016

Although Gammy-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, a new study shows that scientists may be missing a majority of these powerful cosmic detonations.

NASA will host a Facebook Live event Friday, July 15 at 10 a.m. PDT, about NASA’s next Mars rover, Mars 2020, which is moving forward with final design and construction.

Join us Friday, 15 July, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of the Sundarbans, in Bangladesh

ESA astronaut Tim Peake seen arriving back in the UK for the first time after his six-month Principia mission

Once a small, dim point of light, we now know it’s a fascinating, active world.

Hundreds of astronomers have collaborated to make the largest three-dimensional map of galaxies on our universe.

Getting the bigger picture on the health of our planet drew another step closer today as Europe’s Sentinel-3A satellite was handed over to Eumetsat for operations.

On July 4th, Juno entered orbit. Now the JunoCam is on, and here’s its first post-orbit picture of the jovian system.

ALMA takes the first image of a water “snowline” around a star with a violent outburst.

For the second time in a year, a NASA camera has documented the moon traversing across the Earth.

Technology image of the week: ESA’s double-satellite Proba-3 will be going where no Proba minisatellite has gone before

The European Space Agency’s orbiting X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has proved the existence of a “gravitational vortex” around a black hole.

The JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft’s July 4 arrival at Jupiter.

In the most detailed picture to date, information from ESA’s CryoSat satellite reveals how melting ice in Greenland has recently contributed twice as much to sea-level rise as the prior two decades.

It all has to do with the point of view of the observer, in a sense.

To find nebulae from the first supernovae, we need to look for blue lines.

Infrared images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) reveal unanticipated low-mass objects.

The UK’s Farnborough airshow today saw ESA’s commitment to the next step in developing a revolutionary air-breathing rocket engine that could begin test firings in about four years.

Space Science Image of the Week: The steep cliffs of the Hathor region pictured in a stunning view of Rosetta’s comet

Orbiting beyond Neptune lies 2015 RR245, a newly discovered dwarf planet.

Prehistoric supernovae explosions may have played a role in the development of Earth’s biosphere.

About 250 million light-years away, there’s a neighborhood of our universe that astronomers had considered quiet and unremarkable.

The unassuming galaxy turns out to have a lot of parts taken from galaxies that came before.

Some dusty parts of Mars get as cold at night year-round as the planet’s poles do in winter, even regions near the equator in summer, according to new NASA findings based on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observations.

Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission have identified permanently shadowed cold regions on the dwarf planet Ceres where ice deposits could exist now.

Our week through the lens: 4-8 July 2016

ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

Refinements in the technology could make merging black holes all-too-common.

Most of these areas likely have been cold enough to trap water ice for a billion years, suggesting that ice deposits could exist there now.

ESA is exhibiting at the Farnborough International Air Show in the UK on 11–17 July.

The target is set: a large derelict satellite currently silently tumbling its way through low orbit. If all goes to plan, in 2023 it will vanish – and efforts against space debris will have made a giant leap forward.

Puzzles persist about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Martian slopes, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the Red Planet’s largest canyon system.

The engineers and scientists working on NASA’s Juno mission have been busying themselves, getting their newly arrived Jupiter orbiter ready for operations around the largest planetary inhabitant in the solar system.

Join us Friday, 8 July, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of the Malaspina Glacier in Alaska

The inner region sends out clock-like pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields.

HD 131399Ab is relatively young and farther from its parent star than any confirmed planet in our solar system.

Strange object VLA J213002.08+120904 has turned out to be a new kind of black hole quietly consuming its neighbor.

China’s 30-soccer-field-wide radio telescope will start the hunt for extraterrestrials.

The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is taking steps to return the rover to full activity following a precautionary stand-down over the Fourth of July weekend.

Technology image of the week: ESA minisatellite Proba-V images the Netherlands and its vegetation in false colour

Hitomi met an untimely, violent end, but before that, it got an incredible glimpse of one of the largest structures in the universe.

One dramatic consequence is that some of the star’s material, stripped from the star and collected around the black hole, can be ejected in extremely narrow beams of particles at speeds approaching the speed of light.

These direct-collapse black holes may be the solution to a long-standing puzzle in astronomy: How did supermassive black holes form in the early epochs of the universe?

Juno is equipped with 9 scientific instruments all dedicated to studying the largest planet in the solar system.

NASA has renewed the Hubble Space Telescope’s operational contract until 2021. Here’s a timeline of it’s last 26 years.