The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Surveyor I spacecraft made a perfect low-speed, three-point landing on the moon on June 1, 1966, after a 63-hour, 36-minute flight from Cape Kennedy.

The second of a series of Surveyor spacecraft, designed to soft land on the moon, will be launched from Cape Kennedy during a launch period beginning Tuesday, September 20, and ending Friday, September 23.

The sparkling success of Surveyor I in taking television pictures of the Moon’s surface has been further enhanced by a computer process developed at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Surveyor I spacecraft made a perfect low-speed, three-point landing on the Moon on June 1, 1966, after a 63-hour, 36-minute flight from Cape Kennedy.

The Surveyor II spacecraft, which was to soft-land on the moon tonight, lost communications with Earth tracking stations at 2:35 a.m. PDT today–45 hours and three minutes after it was launched from Cape Kennedy.

Surveyor II will impact southeast of the crater Copernicus at 8:18 p.m. PDT tonight. The landing time and zone is based on analysis of the flight path prior to loss of contact.

Mariner IV, launched two years ago today on its historic Mars photo mission, has flown more than one billion miles in space and continues to operate properly, reporting its condition to Earth three times each week.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Surveyor II spacecraft impacted the moon near the crater Copernicus on September 22, 1966.

Surveyor I, on its 220th day on the moon since it landed in the Ocean of Storms June 1, 1966, was turned on last Friday and communicated with Earth stations for approximately twelve hours. The objective for activating the transmitters ab…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has eliminated three Surveyor soft lunar landing spacecraft from current budget planning.

The fourth of a series of Surveyor spacecraft, designed to soft land on the moon, will be launched from Cape Kennedy during a launch period beginning Thursday, July 13, and ending Monday, July 17.

Mariner V, now in the tenth day of its four-month flight to Venus, will fly by the planet at an altitude of about 2500 miles, project officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory report…

The fifth of a series of Surveyor spacecraft, designed to soft land on the moon, will be launched from Cape Kennedy during a launch period beginning Friday, September 8, and ending Wednesday, September 13.

The Mariner Venus spacecraft of 1967 may combine with the Mariner Mars spacecraft, vintage 1964, in a novel experiment planned for this summer and fall by Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists for the National Aeronautics and Spac…

Venus, the cloud-shrouded mystery planet, may yield some of her secrets in mid-October to Mariner V experimenters at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several allied installations.

The Mariner IV spacecraft last night was buffeted about in interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Mars when it apparently crossed the path of a stream of micrometeoroids.

Surveyor VII will both dig and analyze the Moon’s surface if all goes well next month in the last and probably most difficult of the United States’ series of lunar surface probes.

Commands were transmitted from Earth yesterday to two Mariner interplanetary spacecraft operating at widely-separated points in the solar system, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported today.

The surface air pressure on the planet Venus may be 75 or 100 times that on Earth–or four to five times greater than the Venus pressure reported recently by Soviet scientists–Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers have revealed.

The second Mariner ’69 spacecraft, Mariners VII, will be launched on fly-by missions to Mars on Monday, March 24, at about 2 p.m. The first spacecraft Mariner VI, was launched February 24.

Correction to Mariner Mars 1969 Press Kit (Released February 14, 1969).

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch two Mariner spacecraft, F & G, on fly-by missions to Mars in 1969. Project responsibility is assigned to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. NASA’s Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, is responsible for the launch vehicle. Tracking and communication will be provided by the Deep Space Net stations operated by JPL for NASA.

Commands were transmitted from Earth to the Mars-bound Mariner 7 today to complete the star acquisition sequence begun shortly after the spacecraft was launched on March 27.

The launch of Mariner G toward Mars, originally scheduled for 1:58 p.m. PST Monday, March 24, has been postponed for at least 3 days because of problems with the spacecraft’s on-board computer and one of its science instruments. Project …

Some aeons-old secrets of Mars could be unveiled by spectrometers, television cameras and radiometers aboard Mariner VI and VII in the next week or so when the space- craft fly by the red planet at a distance of only 2,000 miles. Scienti…

Formation of the Viking Orbiter Office at the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory was announced today by JPL Director Dr. William H. Pickering.

Join us Tuesday, 19 April, at 14:00 CEST as ESA’s Sentinel-1 Mission Manager Pierre Potin joins the show to discuss the radar vision mission for Copernicus

Space Science Image of the Week: Suggestive of a face immersed in deep thoughts, this view reveals the complex terrains around Anuket on Rosetta’s comet

Europe’s Sentinel-1A satellite has shown that the Mekong River Delta – one of the world’s major rice-growing areas – saw a significant drop in productivity over the past year, illustrating the effect of El Niño on food security.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system.

Scientists have determined that comets produce X-ray emission when particles in the solar wind strike the atmosphere of the comet.

Our week through the lens: 11-15 April 2016

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1A image of Ireland, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

A nebula known as “the Spider” glows fluorescent green in an infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system.

The international Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from outside our Solar System.

Operations image of the week: ESA’s deep-space tracking station in Argentina seen while relaying signals from Philae in 2014

Multiple satellites, including Europe’s Sentinels, have captured images of two large icebergs that broke away from Antarctica’s Nansen ice shelf on 7 April.

Join us Friday, 15 April, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-1A image of Ireland

Explore Europe’s Columbus space laboratory with your mobile phone or VR headset in this panorama

This discovery paves the way for ALMA to find many more such objects and could help astronomers address important questions on the nature of dark matter.

Technology image of the week: Clean Space’s new board game helps educate engineers about the environmental impacts of space missions

The ESA–Roscosmos ExoMars spacecraft are in excellent health following launch last month, with the orbiter sending back its first test image of a starry view taken en route to the Red Planet.

Watch ESA education in-flight call with astronaut Tim Peake on 14 April, streaming starts at 14:00 CEST, with Tim live at 14:40 CEST

While all previous hypervelocity stars are single, PB 3877 is the first wide binary star found to travel at such a high speed.

NASA has selected 13 proposals, including four from JPL, for a program that invests in transformative architectures through the development of pioneering technologies.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: ESA astronaut Tim Peake reading Yuri Gagarin’s biography in space for Cosmonaut day

Mission operations engineers have successfully recovered the Kepler spacecraft from Emergency Mode.

Based on the signals seen so far and the sensitivity of LIGO’s detectors, scientists estimate that they’ll see between 10 and 100 black hole mergers during the instrument’s next observing run, which begins in late summer.

The Sentinel-1 mission is allowing institutes to provide a better service to users needing reliable information on sea ice, which is key to living and working safely in Arctic regions

JPL has a new approach to its annual public weekend. To ensure a safe, enjoyable experience, the event formerly called “Open House” will require tickets in 2016.

Keeping you posted on new developments in space applications that help tackle migration issues

@esa has reached half a million followers on Twitter, thank you for connecting with us

Space science image of the week: Did Saturn’s rings form from a moon that broke apart?

While the proposed planet’s existence may eventually be confirmed by other means, mission navigators have observed no unexplained deviations in the spacecraft’s orbit.

Deep radio imaging has revealed that supermassive black holes in a region of the distant universe are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction.

NASA’s Kepler mission will begin a search for planets orbiting far from their stars by using gravitational lensing.

New data on how water moves around Earth answer old questions about the planet’s rotation.

Contrary to recent reports, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is not experiencing unexplained deviations in its orbit around Saturn, according to mission managers and orbit determination experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, C…

With less than two months left aboard the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Tim Peake has been exceptionally busy with experiments and arriving spacecraft. Tonight, the third supply vessel for the space laboratory in three weeks w…

Our week through the lens: 4-8 April 2016

ESA astronaut Tim Peake shares the views from space and highlights of his Principia mission so far

A slideshow of ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s views of Europe at night from the International Space Station

On 22 April, Sentinel-1B is set to join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to provide more radar views of Earth for Copernicus – hear all about it

By simulating the evolution of the interstellar ice making up comets, French research teams have successfully obtained ribose, a key step in understanding the origin of RNA — and therefore of life.

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1A image of the Bernese Alps, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

NASA’s K2 mission is on the hunt for planets floating alone without stars.

Explore the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this full panorama with your mobile phone or VR headset

The latest pair of navigation satellites has reached Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, beginning a new Galileo launch campaign, which will culminate in a launch on 24 May.

Rosetta’s comet has been seen changing colour and brightness in front of the ESA orbiter’s eyes, as the Sun’s heat strips away the older surface to reveal fresher material.

Since its launch six months ago, a satellite small enough to fit in an airline passenger’s carry-on bag has been tracking aircraft in flight across the entire globe.

Join us Friday, 8 April, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-1A image of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland

A team of astronomers has discovered one of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects within relatively close proximity to the Sun.

An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system, which showered the Earth with radioactive debris.

NASA’s principal website received its eighth Webby Award nomination for government website, and NASA’s social media team has received its second nomination for social media presence.

Despite only being in orbit a matter of weeks, Sentinel-3A has already delivered some impressive first images. With the thermal-infrared channels now turned on, the satellite completes its set of firsts with a view of ocean features off th…

Technology image of the week: Hawaii, home to Earth’s largest volcano, as imaged by Proba-V, among ESA’s smallest Earth-observing satellites

Given scientists’ current understanding of how often galaxies merge, limits point to fewer detectable pairs of supermassive black holes than previously expected.

Astronomers have uncovered a near-record-breaking supermassive black hole weighing 17 billion Suns.

NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft discovered 72 near-Earth objects and characterized 439 others in its first two years of operations.

The NASA spacecraft that was launched 15 years ago this week carried the name 2001 Mars Odyssey and the hopes for reviving a stymied program of exploring the Red Planet.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Testing ways of taking samples from dusty, low-gravity moons and asteroids

From its perch high on a ridge, the rover recorded an image of a martian dust devil twisting through the valley below.

A massive impact could have temporarily increased the planet’s atmospheric pressure, periodically heating Mars up enough to “re-start” a dormant water cycle.

Sea level rise is a global issue affecting millions. Now, a JPL-developed Web portal gives researchers, decision makers and the public alike a new resource to stay up to date.

From its perch high on a ridge, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded an image of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below.

Space Science Image of the Week: The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this view of a beautiful, but deceptive, planetary nebula

New research shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy’s core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.

While the precise nature of the system remains unclear, the data imply that it is unusual and exotic.

Beginning today, all Earth imagery from a prolific Japanese remote sensing instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft since 1999 is now available to users everywhere at no cost.

Our week through the lens: 28 March – 1 April 2016

Astronomers report a wellspring of new brown dwarf stellar companions, throwing cold water on the entire idea of the “brown dwarf desert,” the previously mystifying lack of these sub-stellar objects around stars.

Competition to develop the next generation interactive Space App with ESA, deadline 15 April

A new way to detect underground forest fungi from space could help researchers predict how climate change will alter forest habitats.

NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover.

NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover.

Operations image of the week: Teams at ESA’s mission control in intensive simulation training for Sentinel-1B liftoff

Decades of searching in the Milky Way’s nearby ‘twin’ galaxy Andromeda have finally paid off, with the discovery of an elusive breed of stellar corpse, a neutron star, by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope.

Join us Friday, 1 April, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-3A image of the River Nile and surroundings